Yes, recently VC Steve Maharey told staff there will NOT be any "mass redundancies". Since then a number of senior managers have strangely "retired" or "resigned", and a few have had their positions formerly disestablished. Chief Executive Prof Ian Warrington from PN Campus "retired", and his equivalents from the other campuses went too, for example (see http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/3254402/Massey-Uni-chiefs-axed-to-save-costs and http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/3614795/Massey-chief-retires-as-part-of-overhaul).

Late 2009, seven academics were made redundant from College of Science's INR in P.North. College PVC, Prof Robert Anderson, refused to comment. The staff affected took a case to the ERA and won, but Massey appealed.

Now almost all remaining general staff are forced into a position of uncertainty.

At the same time a review of the teaching programmes is taking place. Staff expect the outcome of this will mean further academic redundancies, and reduced options for students. Interestingly, some uneconomic programmes (such as Engineering in Wellington) have been deemed as being strategic to Massey and will therefore remain intact despite appalling low enrolments.

In the current planned staff cutbacks, former head of Massey's now defunct Dept of Information Systems, Prof Chris Freyberg’s position is one of those to be axed. Prof Freyberg has been involved in other University administrative activities since his academic position was disestablished. More recently he has been living in Nelson, therefore he has largely been absent from work, while remaining on his very good salary. The reduction of IT staff in particular will create a real problem for both academics and students.