How to get staff support for cost cutting initiatives
Everywhere you turn public sector organisations are actively pursuing plans to take tens of £millions out of their costs over the next few years. This will almost certainly impact on headcount and can give rise to fear and uncertainty amongst the staff in these organisations.
Short term savings that are made indiscriminately by slashing headcount could prove to be false when the cost of de-motivated staff working in stressful, under resourced processes that can no longer meet customer requirements comes to light.
