The Restructuring Play
By Sara Rodgers Consulting. 19 years handling the hardest HR moments at Target, Cisco, and DataRobot, now built into 32 AI agents.
Plan and run a reduction in force with care: the business case, selection, compliance, notification day, and aftermath.
- 8 skills
- Every skill works in your AI app as-is
- Version 1.0.0, released Oct 1, 2026
- From $149/mo
A layoff done badly costs you the people who stay. The Restructuring Play covers every phase of a reduction in force so it's defensible, humane, and organized.
What's inside
- RIF Planning Companion: business case, alternatives, decisional unit, and confidentiality
- Selection Matrix Builder: defensible criteria, calibration, and per-person rationale
- Adverse Impact Checker: four-fifths ratios and significance testing on your draft list
- RIF Compliance Navigator: WARN, OWBPA, and the timeline to a lawful separation date
- Notifying Manager Kit Builder: scripts and rehearsal for the managers delivering the news
- RIF Comms and FAQ Builder: the announcement, FAQs, and survivor communications
- Notification Day Runbook: the hour-by-hour run of show
- Post-RIF Coordinator: releases, paperwork, rehire rules, and the 30-day retro
Built from 19 years of HR work at Target, Cisco, and DataRobot. Not legal advice. Every reduction in force should be reviewed by employment counsel.
The skills in The Restructuring Play
Adverse Impact Checker
Use when there is a draft RIF selection list to test. Takes a roster file and computes selection rates by protected group, four-fifths ratios, and statistical significance, plus a high-risk individual scan, for counsel review.
works in your AI app as-isNotification Day Runbook
Use to plan and run RIF notification day: hour-by-hour run of show, timezone waves, the impacted tracker, IT access sequencing, the all-clear, and day-of contingencies like leaks or no-shows.
works in your AI app as-isNotifying Manager Kit Builder
Use to equip the managers delivering RIF notifications: the enablement kit, notification scripts, rehearsal coaching, reaction handling, and the same-day conversation with the team that stays.
works in your AI app as-isPost-RIF Coordinator
Use after RIF notifications are done: follow-up emails and documents, release signature tracking against OWBPA clocks, severance and benefits paperwork, rehire rules, litigation hold, survivor stability, and the 30-day retro.
works in your AI app as-isRIF Comms and FAQ Builder
Use for a reduction in force communications package: all-company announcement, core messaging, impacted employee FAQ, manager FAQ, survivor communications, town hall talking points, and external lines.
works in your AI app as-isRIF Planning Companion
Use when planning a reduction in force, restructuring, or layoff. Builds the planning phase: business case, alternatives considered, decisional unit, confidentiality, working group, and the master planning workbook.
works in your AI app as-isSelection Matrix Builder
Use to decide who stays and who goes in a reduction, defensibly. Builds the selection method, skills matrix, criteria definitions, rater calibration, and per-person rationale, and flags risky criteria like leave or attendance.
works in your AI app as-is
Per organization, on the seller's store
- Business$149/mo, or $1,490/yr
- Fractional HR Partner$299/mo, or $2,990/yr
v1.0.0 Oct 1, 2026
First release. Eight skills covering a reduction in force end to end: planning, selection, adverse impact analysis, the legal calendar, manager notification kits, communications, notification day, and post-RIF follow-through.
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