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Navigating Sensitive Workplace Scenarios with Executive Security Services

Workplace layoffs can be a source of stress for both departing employees and those who remain. Executive Security Services (ESSI) is a premier provider offering specialized security solutions tailored for these sensitive situations.

Layoffs in corporations or a termination of a key position can happen with little notice, and while no one is excited to have this situation in their workplace, there certainly needn't be occasions where violence occurs or any company or intellectual property is stolen or damaged. Let Executive Security step in and help you maintain a safe and secure working environment.

ESSI has provided security for various companies that have experienced downsizing, layoffs, hostile terminations and other tense or violent situations.

What could go wrong in the workplace? Plenty - but don’t worry, Executive Security is here to help protect what matters most!

Workplace Violence Prevention

In a recent report published data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 392 homicides and 37,060 nonfatal injuries in the workplace resulting from an intentional injury by another person.

Sales, transportation, management, construction and production are the five occupational groups with the highest rates of workplace homicide.

Since the return to work from COVID-19, workplace violence has been on the rise at an alarming rate. While these facts are hard to face, ESSI is certain that having a security guard or multiple guards, on your workplace grounds and building can deter violent incidents or provide swift action when they occur.

Our security guards can assist with workplace violence prevention by keeping careful watch in crowded areas, looking out for suspicious activity, and making sure weak areas of the building or corporate campus are monitored.

Workplace security is everyone's business, and the investment of every employee no matter their role is crucial to achieve this. Hold workplace safety seminars and trainings, and educate them on what to watch out for and ways to keep themselves safe.

Executive Security Services also closely collaborates with local law enforcement and can communicate with them to provide a fast response to any dangerous situation or report any incident. We can also help your company develop workplace emergency protocols or enact steps that need to be taken in an emergency, such as safety checklists or systematically clearing common areas in your building.

Hostile Terminations

Don’t let anxiety about changes in personnel at work keep you up at night! Call ESSI and see how we can help. We are responsive, trained, and available to jump in and help.

We can help avoid distraction by any dramatic exits or outbursts - as well as ease any fears that there may be an incident when such personnel changes need to be made.

By assessing the situation, stepping in, and using force or guided assistance when necessary, our guards use discretion and provide swift response. Our goal is to quickly and safely guide the person of the premises as quickly as possible.

Corporate Downsizing

When tides change at your workplace, it can be unsettling. Like a trusted friend you might call in a crisis, Executive Security Services is here to help you manage these changes in personnel and keep the working environment calm and productive.

Things to Consider During a Downsize or Round of Layoffs

1. Coordinate with HR: Keep the HR Department closely connected to the situation and communicate with them regularly. They will need to conduct exit interviews, have key conversations, and document what was done and said by both parties. Notify them if you are planning to have physical security present during the announcement of layoffs. In the same turn, listen to their judgment when they feel like physical security presence is warranted. They may know the details of history and background of an employee facing termination or layoffs than a manager or supervisor, and may want to prepare accordingly.
   

2. Utilize Physical Security: ESSI can help to make preparations in procedures as well as monitor anomalies in employee behavior and organizational risk – before, during, and after layoffs. Our trained guards can assist in ushering people from the building, collecting badges and property, and keeping any hostility from escalating. They also keep an eye on cars in the parking lot, just in case of the impulsive urge to remove frustration when they think no one is looking.
   

3. Retain Property and Passwords: Be sure to have the employees turn in or hand over badges, company property such as laptops, cell phones or other resources. Make sure that the IT Department is notified right away (always before the official termination is communicated to the person) so that they are able to change or reset any critical passwords. Consider password management and cyber security in your layoff and termination plan, in addition to utilizing physical security guards to monitor threats of theft or vandalism.

ESSI is Your Workplace Protector!

Our mission is to protect yours! That means that we work hard to keep your business safe so that you can do what you do best: get back to work and keep things moving at your company. Contact us today to ask about our Corporate Security Services. We can provide you with a quote as well as accommodate most requests for this on short notice. Call on us to help your business to be more stable tomorrow.