How to survive a corporate shake-up

Corporate reorganisations can be hugely unsettling for employees, whose working lives can change overnight. What can managers do to make these periods of flux as easy as possible for their charges? Isabel Berwick speaks to work researcher Christine Armstrong, and Andrew Hill, the FT’s senior business writer. They discuss how to get ahead of gossip, why clarity is king when you deliver bad news, and the dirtiest office secret of all: that work isn’t your whole life. Want more? Free links: Silent lay-offs are rarely as quiet as bosses hope We’re all busy again’, say UK restructuring experts The anatomy of a corporate turnaround Presented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s head of audio. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How to survive a corporate shake-up is an episode from Working It by Mischa Frankl-Duval.

This episode is 17:15 long.

This episode was published on Oct 8, 2024.

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