The company was downsizing and had offered most of the restructured jobs to people in their 20s.
This means that half the time, the new hire isn't going to work out as intended and your company can expect to repeat the process, make due with a inferior situation, or restructure job duties to accommodate a bad decision.
"There's a major restructuring job to be done.
But the revival of Serco looks increasingly like a major restructuring job.
Usually, the situation is an unhappy one; Dienst knew that a restructuring job was complete when "everyone felt equally miserable".
Using an adapted version of the "PSYRES" questionnaire in a representative sample of 1600 employees in 13 municipalities, the study investigated the effect of restructuring, job insecurity and psychosocial factors on wellbeing.
The review therefore included not only general and specific health and safety policies but also policies relating to working hours, part-time work, temporary work, parental leave, discrimination, organizational restructuring (job insecurity), and so forth.
One exception has been Yasin et. al. [ 18], who surveyed the extent to which the following approaches were implemented in 108 Tennessee (USA) hospitals in 2002: continuous improvement (CI), total quality management (TQM), business process re-engineering (BPR), just-in-time techniques (JIT), organizational restructuring, job re-engineering (JR) and benchmarking (BM).
The need to control cost might also encourage universities to restructure some jobs to avoid paying overtime by creating lower-paid positions with strictly limited hours, and to develop more university-based central research facilities that would cut costs by having multiple labs share equipment.
