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Robin Green wrote: | | in general the principle of outsourcing technical work to the private | sector makes some kind of sense, because public sector employers can have | difficulty attracting employees with the range of experience that you might find | at a good private sector IT provider.
Pay a third party X + Profit + N, so they can pay their staff more (X+N) than you pay yours (X), and outsource the interesting new stuff, and wonder why your inhouse IT staff are demoralised and leaving in droves.
Hey I was the consultant at one point, so I've seen this a lot of times, indeed quite a lot of staff discreetly made clear they were definitely poachable, or asked other obvious questions (like "how much are you earning", which probably wasn't as much as they thought).
In my case I did what many people do, 5 years as a civil servant getting very good training from HP, and folks, then 6 or so years in the private sector making more money but barely seeing a training provider (I think two courses in 6 years).
It makes sense to outsource if you are small enough that you can't get expertise inhouse, the government don't have that excuse. Well actually they have outsourced so much I suspect a lot of the governments good IT staff have long left to work for EDS, or got forcibly moved to EDS.
A similar comparison might be the NHS recruiting group, where they created their own job agency, after realising how much cash they were handing over to nursing agency, to send the same people to work for them week after week after week.
The government is big, they just need to organise better.
In Logica there were scrolling lists of IT project vacancies on monitors staff by the main exit, so staff saw them on the way out.
In the Government there was a monthly published list in small print of all jobs you might like to transfer to elsewhere, not even specifically IT just everything, and you had to go look for it usually.
In reality you usually need skilled IT inhouse after the projects are finished, my Aunt worked at a hopsital where the inhouse IT staff had no idea how the main admin system worked, so every little fault had to accumulate till they could justify a 1000GBP for a day of "fixes" from the consultancy (Cap Gemini I believe), and these weren't rocket science type fixes.
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