Layoffs hurt. The work is still yours.

I've been there, and many of us will be. According to a Harris Poll survey, 40% of employees have been laid off or terminated at least once in their career.

Beyond the immediate panic related to the loss of income, having your agency stripped away by an employer's decision stings. You feel untethered. You ask yourself why, and unable to find a good reason, you blame yourself. You feel ashamed, and you'll often just plain want to retreat — exactly when you most need to make yourself visible.

It should not be that way. It doesn't need to be that way.

Reclaiming your agency — and your narrative

BeamMe was built on the belief that no one should rent their reputation from a job title, no matter the brand associated with the company you work at.

Your title can disappear overnight. The work you did does not.

The decisions you made, the problems you noticed, the judgment you exercised, the people you influenced, and what changed because you were there are still yours.

It's too bad that we've never kept a record of all the micro moments that tell the full story of our value — because when a layoff happens, we're left trying to reconstruct it all from a resume written for the job we just lost.

BeamMe™ gives you somewhere else to start.

You build your own record of the moments that mattered, at work or in your personal life — the moments where your presence had an impact on the outcome.

BeamMe reads across that evidence to surface the patterns in how you work and the value you repeatedly create. You can challenge its read or reject it. Nothing becomes part of your record until you say it does.

Then, when the layoff happens, it's all there for you to see — and to use to build what comes next. The layoff hasn't changed the work you did or the value you created. What changed was the place you left behind, because it no longer has you.

You have the evidence you need to rebuild. And only you get to decide what the work you did there says about you.