As members of the University of Leeds community, we are concerned about the current IT reorganisation. We believe that: the loss of experienced IT staff and management focus on the reorganisation is contributing to problems with IT services research, teaching and administrative needs should drive IT planning, not cost-cutting there should be consultation with staff at all levels about IT plans experienced and skilled IT staff are extremely valuable to the university and should be supported and retained there should be no compulsory/forced redundancies and no downgrading of IT staff or roles as a result of the reorganisation there should be no further outsourcing of IT services and a review of those that are currently outsourced the spend on consultants is a drain on the budget … continue reading