Layoff vs. Redundancy

Layoffnoun

(chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).

Layoffnoun

A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.

Layoffnoun

A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.

Layoffnoun

the act of laying off an employee or a work force

Layoff

A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization. Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, or employment but this has evolved to a permanent elimination of a position in both British and US English, requiring the addition of to specify the original meaning of the word.

Redundancynoun

The state of being redundant

Redundancynoun

A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language

Redundancynoun

Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.

Redundancynoun

Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.

Redundancynoun

The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.

Redundancynoun

(law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

Redundancynoun

repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

Redundancynoun

the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded;

Redundancynoun

(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails

Redundancynoun

repetition of an act needlessly