opt for outplacement services is the objective to grow their brand proposition and project their goodwill factoraccording to a grant thornton report there was a surge in ma activities in 2018 with telecom ecommerce energy manufacturing retail and agriculture contributing to highvalue deals looking at the deal pipelines grant thornton believes the outlook for 2019 is also positive on the consolidation and ma frontusually outplacement is a goodwill offered over severance and the cost is borne by the organisation however in insolvency bankruptcy code cases where a company cannot make severance payouts itll not be in a position to pay for outplacement services either in the case of jet airways which is trying to get funds to restart the airline salary payment would be a top priority the company may not engage an outplacement service provider till they figure out a way forward said industry sources