The organization is famous for cutting costs.
Immediately after buying over the company, the new management retrenched the admin staff. Now all the managers have to do their own paperworks. Next to go will be the tidbits and snacks at the pantry.
If you look at it, it seems logical as managing costs and cutting costs is one of the ways many companies use to survive and keep their businesses profitable. Put it another way, you can say it's to improve productivity. Getting fewer people to do the same volume of work or more.
Let's see if it's smart.
Let's say the salary of an admin staff is $3000 and $5000 for managers. By letting the admin staff goes, you save $3000 per month. But the managers will have to spend their precious time doing paperworks. So instead of concentrating on doing what they do best, they have to put aside time for work like typing and filing documents. The managers are overloaded with their own areas of responsibility and doing work that they are lousy at. What do you think will happens? Confusion, tight schedule, missing documents, mistakes, stress and loss of concentration. And ultimately resignation.
And you know that when a staff resigns, you end up spending more to recruit another one.
Instead of letting the admin staff goes, why not train her to help out in more value-added activities?
The next time you think about cutting costs, ask if you can use the same resources to build something better.