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It's funny how brobdingnagian salaries have to get for people to feel shocked. Would it be OK for only £1,000 a day? £200 a day? Seriously, where is the limit?
by nmc 13y ago
It's funny how brobdingnagian salaries have to get for people to feel shocked.
Would it be OK for only £1,000 a day? £200 a day? Seriously, where is the limit?
- infosecbuzz 13y agoWho knows? But It´s easy to see how so much money is wasted...
- negamax 13y agoAccording to the article, the recruitment was from the private sector and pays the market rate. If this was nepotism, then I would had agreed with the waste argument. But just because someone is being paid 10x the majority, doesn't make the decision to recruit them wrong.
- infosecbuzz 13y agoIt doesn´t make the decision wrong. It´s a supply and demand game isn´t it? It´s hard not to second guess in this matter, but you have to presume that the cost to replace them is much greater.
- marvin 13y agoIt's easy to get up in arms about consultants being paid a high rate. But who really knows how much time and money was wasted among the 50,000 staff that was laid off? This is a very difficult question to answer, since "performance" can't be measured accurately.
- rmcastil 13y agoExactly. A consultant's job is to deliver results from day one. If not, they're quickly out the door. The same can't be said for staff because they are considered an investment by their employer and therefore kept around much longer despite how much the drop off in "performance" may be compared to a consultant.
- Daviey 13y agoFor the top rack, which is this... short term contract, I am not outraged. Should I be?
- Nursie 13y agoExcept the article says it's not really short term and she's overseeing several long term projects. The public sector in the UK is notorious for keeping these 'temporary' people in place at great cost to the taxpayer.
- Daviey 13y agoThe article precisely says that "It is understood that Ferguson is on a short-term contract".. And the fact that she has prior top-end contracts with RM and TfL proves that she will not be there forever. It's too easy to assume situations like this are 'at cost' to the taxpayer, it's probable that it is a net saving to the taxpayer.
- Nursie 13y agoIt's very unlikely this is a net saving to anyone, Capita are involved.