Half of the staff replaced
Kristina Kristensen's organic mission has resulted in radical changes in production. This has in turn led to new professional requirements for the Studenterhusfonden’s employees to live up to.
This has in turn meant changes in the composition of staff compared to before Kristina Kristensen became director.
First of all, the number of employees has been cut from almost 70 to 52. In addition, around 25 employees have been replaced along the way.
"I hadn’t foreseen so many changes. I was very surprised to discover that there was such a gap between the goals which the Studenterhusfonden has today and the expectations and goals of the staff," she says.
The director won’t put a figure on exactly how many employees she has been forced to dismiss, but part of the change is due to natural wastage, she says. On top of this, 10-12 former employees have chosen to stop.
"Having to dismiss people is terrible. So it's therefore nice for me that some have chosen not to be a part of this process, which has given me the opportunity to employ other people with the necessary competences," she says.
On a management level, nine out of the ten previous managers have been replaced. Only the waiting manager has retained his post.
"It’s not a particularly good advertisement and it wasn’t how I was planning to start. But I quickly became aware that with such a major task ahead of me, I would have to find some managers who thought this project was almost as exciting as I did," she says.
Chairman of the board of the Studenterhusfonden Erik Meineche Schmidt has no comments to the changes in staff. It is a managerial responsibility based on a professional assessment, he says.
"We do not interfere in staff policy details and in the who, where and what of kitchen staff. We are interested in seeing the best possible and most healthy business being run. We are satisfied as long as the director does that."