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Re: Anyone work in HR? What do you make of this?
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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey
They have tight budgets on (permanent) staff salaries.
For equipment, and contractors there seems to be no limit on what they can spend.
When all the civil servants got the boot a while a go, a friend of mine was a PM on a government project - once they got rid of the permanent staff to save money, they then had to employ contractors at 5 to 6 times the salary of the permanent staff to cover the work.
I think contractor salaries don't go down on the spreadsheet as employment costs, so it's easier to spend on them
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Contractors and equipment are usually on Project work, which comes out of Capital budgets, rather than Operational (including salaries) budgets.
btw, I've just moved from "industry" to "government" (Higher Education) - best move I ever made (imho).
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