Layoff vs. Redundancy — What's the Difference?

A temporary unpaid leave from a job.

Elimination of employment due to role obsolescence.

A period during which an employee is not working but is still officially employed.

A situation where a position is no longer required, and the employee is let go.

An employer's act of suspending or terminating workers.

The state of being no longer employed because one's job is no longer needed.

Termination of employment due to business conditions.

The state of being redundant.

A cost-saving measure by temporarily reducing staff.

Something redundant or excessive; a superfluity.

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 "temporary" to specify the original meaning of the word.

Repetition of linguistic information inherent in the structure of a language, as singularity in the sentence It works.

The act of suspending or dismissing an employee, as for lack of work or because of corporate reorganization.

Excessive wordiness or repetition in expression.

A period of temporary inactivity or rest.

The state or fact of being unemployed because work is no longer offered or considered necessary.

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

A dismissal of an employee from work for being no longer necessary; a layoff.

A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.

(Electronics) Duplication or repetition of elements in electronic equipment to provide alternative functional channels in case of failure.

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

Repetition of parts or all of a message to circumvent transmission errors.

A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.

(Genetics) See degeneracy.

The act of laying off an employee or a work force

The state of being redundant

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

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

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

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

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

Repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded;

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

Repetition of an act needlessly

Job loss due to economic or technological changes.

An employment condition where the employer needs to reduce the workforce.