Staff engagement sessions

University of Sussex

We are going to hold a number of sessions in September in which you can help by generating ideas about possible cost savings.

The University of Sussex, like the rest of the HE sector is operating in a challenging financial climate.Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic has already presented us with a number of challenges to our cost base, it is now highly likely that this will be compounded by a significant drop in income due to reduced student numbers.Our income is hugely dependent on international students and this picture will remain uncertain for some time.While we have taken already taken measures to make savings, we now need to look ahead and prepare for the potential impact on our financesStaff have told us that they want to contribute to discussions about cutting costs. So we are going to hold a number of sessions in September in which you can help by generating ideas about possible cost savings.This is your opportunity to contribute to minimising the impact of a loss in income, by thinking about the potential for reducing our cost base. This could be by finding ways to reduce our pay bill, it could be looking at smarter ways of working and doing things differently, or perhaps even stopping some activities.The sessions will be facilitated and hosted on Zoom. We are hoping to involve a large number of people from different areas of the University and with a range of perspectives, so we have scheduled the sessions at different times of the day, including some evening slots, and there are options to work in different group sizes.This means you can elect to be part of a smaller group of eight colleagues, or larger groups of 18 or 36. Within each scheduled session, there will be smaller breakout sessions. The larger groups will also work in smaller break-outs, these larger groups will mean you have the opportunity to work with and hear back from more people and from multiple viewpoints.Within the breakout sessions there will be the opportunity to share your ideas and to listen to the ideas of others, in that way we hope to build on suggestions and generate potential solutions.

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