Tax consultants were paid millions to cut costs for the university, advising 400 sacked staff members to take up baking and journaling. According to an anonymous email sent to the Safework NSW:'... [the restructuring was undertaken] despite full knowledge that the process is causing significant psychological harm to staff, including documented instances of suicidal ideation, anxiety, and depression.' This initially involved the sacking of 400 staff members, a proposal cooked up even as five senior UTS executives travelled to the United States on an alumni trip worth $140,000. Ella Haid, spokesperson of the UTS Students Association General Councillor and Stop the Cuts UTS, is hard to fault in her assessment on this:“We should be clear that management is doing this because they’re pursuing a hefty financial surplus. The parasitic problems associated with university management have become critically colossal.