“Since management changed, the things that are special about working here are getting squashed and lost. It’s a completely different workplace now, and I’m not sure if I fit here any more. It feels so sad.”
Rob* was working hard to maintain his composure as he described the changes he was experiencing a few weeks into an out-of-the-blue organisational change. The IT company he joined over a decade ago had been merged into a much larger global business and it felt to Rob that everything he held dear at work was disappearing.