Restructuring & Transitions
Severance is where good intentions turn into inconsistency and risk. Altavise Advisors helps you benchmark, structure, and administer separation packages so they are fair to people, defensible for the company, and consistent across every exit.
Why it matters
When packages are decided one at a time, they drift. Two people in the same role get different deals, and that difference is the thing a plaintiff's attorney builds a case around. It also quietly signals to your team that outcomes here depend on who is negotiating, not on policy.
We help you set a clear, benchmarked severance framework and apply it consistently, so every separation is handled the same defensible way, and you are not reinventing terms under pressure each time.
What we do
Outcomes
Consistency is the single best defense against a discrimination claim, and a benchmarked framework makes every package consistent by design. You stop making one-off decisions under pressure.
Terms are benchmarked to market by level and tenure, so they are defensible to a departing employee, a board, or a court. People can see the logic, which lowers the temperature of every exit.
You set the framework once and apply it every time, instead of reinventing severance for each separation. That saves time and removes the risk that lives in improvisation.
Outplacement pricing
See what it costs to attach real support to the separation, before you finalize the package rather than after.
Questions
No. We provide benchmarking and process design, and coordinate with your employment counsel on the release and legal terms.
Yes. We do one-off package reviews as well as full framework design.
Severance and outplacement are usually decided together. We scope both so the separation is clean end to end.
A fixed fee for a framework, or a small per-package fee for spot reviews.
Related services
The severance review is included in the Standby retainer, alongside 15 percent off outplacement.
Altavise Standby →What you attach to a severance package so people land somewhere, not just leave.
Outplacement →Planning and running the whole event, with severance as one piece of it.
Layoff & RIF Support →Rethinking severance?
Send us your current approach and we will benchmark it and flag the gaps.
Review our severance See the outplacement platform