Administration is like grass - it needs...
Administration is like grass - it needs mowing regularly. If we cut the non-front line essential service civil service staff by 10% overnight the country would not miss a heartbeat. But we would make a significant reduction to the national debt and long term pension liabilities.
written 17th July 2009 | | abusive?rated 6.5/10 by 2 users | rate a random post
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Paul notes: I understand this sort of comment. However, being a member of the junior civil service, I also understand that staff levels have been subject to erosion for many years now. The workload does not decrease correspondingly, so it is ultimately public services which suffer. A further cut to these service levels would be extremely damaging and would elicit a further public outcry that services aren't up to scratch. The majority of civil servants aren't absorbing the majority of the wage demand and so it appears to me that administrative services are the wrong target, however easy a target they are.
written 7th October 2009 | abusive? -
Josh W notes: Perhaps a better perspective is to cut admin before you cut admin jobs: How much of this workload is duplicated effort? How much of it is authentication and reporting that could be replaced with norms and exceptions?
To be honest this is beyond the scope of this website, as it focuses on actual experiences of the public services, not general principles that may or may not be true.
If you have experience of admin that was obviously pointless, feel free to share it, and I'd encourage Paul to do that to, if he can do it in a general enough way not to loose his job!
written 17th October 2009 | abusive?