Austerity’s assault on the public sector has had tremendous impact on managers’ physical and psychological wellbeing

Austerity policies have meant many job losses and organisational change in the public sector. Les Worrall has conducted research that examines how radical and sustained organisational change, in both the public and private sector, impacts managers’ physical and psychological health. Managers in the public sector were found to have been far more adversely affected by a period of relentless change relative to those in the private sector, with very negative effects on their health, their wellbeing and on their non-working lives reported.