With the unemployment rate above 10% times are getting tougher for companies and their workers. One of the new trends in employee management is to hire a outplacement service to care for the employees who you had to let go. Now the internet is in the game, web based outplacement is one of the fastest growing areas of post employment services. The benefits are that the online service provides have more resources than local outplacement service providers. Also, the cost of employing web based outplacement companies to service ex-employees is considerably lower. The internet is a great tool to educate, consult and managed employee services.