HR advisory, assessments, and operating tools for U.S. businesses
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Understand the financial impact before making a workforce reduction. Estimate severance, total one-time costs, ongoing savings, and payback, with every assumption visible.
Start with the free Severance Pay Calculator. It estimates severance using salary, years of service, and a weeks-per-year policy, with optional payout and benefits extras. You can review your estimate before deciding whether to buy the planner.
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The planner calculates severance, one-time costs, ongoing payroll savings, and payback, and helps you plan the notice timeline.
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What is inside
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How to use it
The planner brings the financial details of a proposed reduction together. The Severance Calculator applies your policy to calculate each person's payout. Full Cost adds employer taxes, accrued PTO, benefits continuation, and outplacement to show the true one-time cost. Savings and Payback calculates ongoing payroll savings from eliminated roles and shows how long it takes to recover the one-time cost. Notice and Timeline helps you plan WARN screening and release review dates. The Summary brings the costs and savings together in one view.
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You receive 4 PDF guides and 1 Excel workbook, all named in the What is inside section above. This is a one time purchase, delivered as a download, not a subscription.
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Yes. You can fill in the Excel workbook for your own internal operations and read or print the PDF guides.
For help implementing this tool, book a one hour Setup Session for $149. For broader HR support, advisory begins with a short request and a written scope at truestephr.com/pages/advisory. For legal questions, consult qualified counsel.
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You can use Excel, LibreOffice on a computer, or Google Sheets in a browser. LibreOffice and Google Sheets are free alternatives. Any PDF reader opens the guides. See download help.
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No. It is general HR information and a working method. It is not written to any one state unless the page says so. Where a decision turns on the law, use qualified counsel. See what we cover, and what we do not.
One license covers the internal HR work of one legal entity. You may edit the files, brand them, and issue them to your employees. Consultants and groups with several entities need the extended license. See the license.
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Plan a workforce reduction with a documented business case, selection criteria, and an adverse-impact review. Work through notice requirements, employee communication, and separation planning, with guidance on when to involve counsel.
Before setting a reduction date, count planned and recent employment losses under WARN. The toolkit checks the 30-day and 90-day windows for every logged loss, flags each test as potential exposure for counsel, and drafts notices. Counsel determines what the law requires.
Plan severance for an entire workforce reduction in one file. Set your weeks-per-year policy once and list everyone affected. The workbook calculates each package and the total group cost, including accrued time off, benefits, and outplacement.
