Thursday, July 24, 2014

Growth industry

It doesn't, perhaps, come as a surprise that James Harding has to make big cuts now at BBC News, to reach his allotted savings targets.  In the nine months between his arrival, in August last year, and May this year, headcount only fell by 6 out of around 7,500. or around 0.08%, as Harding and his colleagues seemed more intent on recruitment of outsiders than sticking to targets.

Stats supplied in response to a Freedom of Information enquiry show that the number of not-quite-senior-managers-or-are-they at Grade 11 grew by 12, while those at SM2 level fell by 4. And there was one additional SM1 recruit. But who ?




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