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Originally Posted by downquark1
OK so this is a true story. A few years ago Theresa May ordered companies to publish their wages gaps. So the HR departments in universities went to work to calculate their wage gaps. To their horror they found a large wage gap.
So it seems that the highest paid positions (Professors) skew male and the lowest paid positions (cleaners) skew female. How could this be? Could they be relentless bigots? Could the labour markets be skewed, it matters not, the wage gap does not care when the results are published. How to fix this? You can't sack the professors, that would be illegal and leave you with no university. You can't pull a load of female professors from no where. So what to do?
Well what some Universities did was remove the cleaners from the payroll and hire an external company to do the cleaning.
So by one form of analysis they shrank the wage gap which they can now brag about at cocktail parties and feminist award ceremonies.
By another form of analysis all they did was sack some working class women and call it a victory for equality.
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When I worked in the benefits department, the top bods decided that all telephone calls should be answered within rings to "improve the service". Management then routed all calls to one telephone in our office. Each call answered was indeed answered within 5 rings and the new policy was achieved (despite the fact that most people got the engaged tone and less people than ever before actually got through).