"To save the World Health Organization (WHO), move staff to regional and country offices; cut posts at the top not only bottom; reduce gig workers rationally; and create a merit- and equity-based HR strategy for all levels of the organization, urge critics. ...
The cost of WHO’s top-level echelon have grown even faster, with roughly $92 million spent on just 215 Directors, the DG and his 11 member senior team – and around $130 million if you consider P6 staff who fill many of the same management functions, according to a detailed analysis of available data by Health Policy Watch.
Amidst the cost-cutting moves, the elephant in the room is whether scrutiny will be extended to the most politically sensitive positions in senior management such as the bloated number of D2 posts. ...
Low and mid-rank professional staff are most vulnerable
Along with reducing new, younger staff hires, the risk is that the austerity measures will boomerang on existing professional staff in the P1-3 grades, the organization’s “worker bees”, through hiring freezes and contract expiration. "