Small Business Glossary and Definitions

Redundancy is a term in human resources that refers to the process of eliminating jobs, whether through downsizing, outsourcing, etc. When a company needs to downsize, the first jobs that are considered for elimination are jobs where it would make sense or be easy for another employee or department to pick up those tasks, which would make those employees redundant in terms of someone else could be completing the work. When a company chooses to outsource job tasks, the internal employees for those tasks become redundant.