More changes at work

My year 2008 started off with a big change - career wise. During December 2007, I was told to leave my favorite team with a sister company based in UK to rejoin my current company. So starting 1st January, I'm back here having the need to work with local office staff handling local projects again but with the exception in the specialized field of Healthcare. Well, as I was reading back on my previous post about this transition, I felt that I am truly blessed with my current job because since then, I was being promoted as a Team Leader. I had predicted it otherwise as I was having a great time attached with my previous UK team.

Having said those, my company is having a huge restructuring particularly at my department due to the fact that it is turning Global vise and everything need to be in-line with the company global vision. The main issue of this whole restructuring thing is to increase company's profit of course. And having our Global Director come visiting our office department here quite often now, we always here him saying all these new restructuring things are being set up to produce "On budget", "On time" and "99% Error Free" work. "On budget" I can understand that it's because our country here can be considered cheap labor compare to other countries. A lot of data processing can be off-shored over here therefore we can produce "On time" delivery. But one thing I don't understand is, is it possible to achieve "99% Error free"? I think our big bosses up there are pulling each other's legs on this.

My department initially consist of 10 staff and it has since increase to 60 staff in such a short period of time. They have also spoken of the possibilities of increasing to 90 staff in the near future. Due to this big changes in the company, I have also heard of sad news that some offices in other countries need to retrench people because most of their jobs would be channeling over to our Global center here, which is where I'm at now. Two of the casualties are from my previous UK team because of this restructuring thing, they were being made redundant, so to speak. I am sad that they were being made to leave whereas I am being blessed with still having my job added with a promotion and a nice laptop for work.

My department office area seems very crowded right now with too many new people being hired out of a sudden. We have only just shifted to this current nice office level in Jan. 2007 but there will be another renovation coming soon due to having space issue now. There would also be 3 work shift going on but currently only 2 shift has started for selected teams. If 3 shift is running, meaning my department is operating 24 hours a day.

Few days ago, I was being told about yet another news of my work changes. My manager is considering pulling me out from my current team of two person to create another new team where I would be leading a team of 4-5 person for Australia projects. Having said, the Australian counter part doesn't need us to work in shift (thank God) but just to follow their Australian working hours which they need me and my team to work from 7.30am - 2.30am. Huh? the total hours seems lesser than the normal 9am - 5.30pm that I'm currently in now. Really don't know how they came up with that but I don't bother asking because allowed to go home at 2.30pm sound too appealing to me. But not sure when this would start taking effect as I am still waiting for the official note from my superior.