We’ve written before about not losing your head when you tighten your belt. Now there are more numbers that back up what we intuitively know about happy employees and the hidden costs of layoffs. How you handle recessionary talent management reflects directly on your employment brand which affects business performance.

The Economist’s Profiting from happiness article shows how good companies to work for are also good investments because of superior performance. This relates in principle to studies which found a connection between companies that use talent management and achieve higher performance.

Portfolio’s The Hidden Cost of Layoffs provides insights into the unexpected results of layoffs on your workforce and the detriments to performance.

How to avoid death by a thousand cuts cites findings by the Center for Creative Leadership that indicate higher motivation in companies that foster trust in challenging times.

Listen to the Brand from the Inside: Proven Strategies for Engaging Employees webcast presented by Libby Sartain and Mark Schumann, co-authors of Brand From the Inside: Eight Essentials to Emotionally Connect Your Employees to Your Business, to find out how building an employment brand from the inside out emotionally engages employees and candidates.