This paper deals with the human consequences caused by modes of working and managing in the restructuring of banking work. It analyzes the mobility - transferences of place and/or position - of employees submitted to restructuring in a public banking institution and presents the consequences of restructuring from the viewpoint of the bank workers. It is a case study, whose data were collected from corporate documents, personal interviews and semi-structured interviews in 1998 and 2003. Data received statistical and content analysis. Results indicate that the restructuring of banking work caused mobility in different manners. The worst effects were on the senior employees and on those who had more length of service, since they descended in the hierarchy. The main human consequences were the instability in work stability, involuntary nomadism, short-term relationships, break of trust and psychic suffering.
Banking work; restructuring work; mobility; human consequences; involuntary nomadism