HR professionals carry the weight of facilitating layoffs, facility closures, and rescinding offers. Insider spoke with an HR VP and executive advisor who shared tips for HR pros managing layoffs. "People forget human-resources professionals are human," Valerie Miele, the vice president of people and culture at Lifesize — a video-and-audio-telecommunications company based in Austin — said. Miele shared advice and firsthand experience on how human-resources professionals can balance priorities and manage job-related stress in a downsized environment. "We [HR professionals] always have to advocate for ourselves," Miele said.

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