With the spate of large scale redundancies that have recently made headlines, (companies such as WOW, One Steel, Qantas, ANZ, and Westpac, just to name a few) I thought the attached article written by John Kavanagh from the Age newspaper would make for some informative reading should you find yourself in that unfortunate position, or you have been approached by your employer to take a package.
http://www.theage.com.au/money/-1z1ur.html