Is this a redundancy situation?

[Newtry]

Sorry, wasn't too sure where to put this one - all thoughts appreciated! Tia

5 people doing the same job across 5 teams. 5 people now pulled together into 1 team to drive efficiencies.

Comments that the new efficiencies should release capacity across the 5 people.

Workload from before reducing, with new activities being added but there's still a feeling that there are too many in the team for the new workload.

Could redundancy be considered in this scenario? If so, how would the process work with only 5 people? If 1 person offered to take redundancy, could they just go and the other 4 remain as is or would everyone have to be considered/Apply for their jobs again?

If there isn't enough work for 5 people then yes, redundancy could be considered. All the team should go into the pool and a fair process used to select who is actually made redundant. If one person offered to take voluntary redundancy the company may accept their offer, in which case, assuming only one redundancy is required, the others would be safe. However, the company doesn't have to accept an offer to take voluntary redundancy.