Why don’t we all temporarily reduce our percent time/effort and/or implement furlough days to help save the University money?
A number of staff have volunteered to reduce their percent effort on a temporary basis or to take unpaid days off (or “furlough days”) to help prevent the need to cut additional staff positions. While this is a wonderful gesture, this approach provides a short-term rather than a long-term solution to our financial situation and does not begin to yield the amount of deficit reductions that are required to achieve our financial goals for FY14. In addition, this approach suggests that our full complement of staffing is not required to maintain University operations. We don’t believe that we can reduce staffing until we have reduced administrative workloads throughout the University by identifying more efficient organization structures through the Organization Review and by streamlining current business processes through initiatives such as the Policy and Process Improvement Project.
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