By: Moonson River Eninsche

Moonson River Eninsche — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:22:41 +0000

@ Gary,
When an organization sees a pending financial crisis, it is not unheard of freezing vacant positions in preperation. The vacant positions’ duties are then absorbed by the remaining staff. Consider a division where 2 vacant positions, in a pool of 20 employees, are frozen and then subsequently eliminated. All things being equal, the remaining 18 staff have an increase in workload by 11% each. Thus, the job is getting done while positions are being vacant, but perhaps this doesn’t suggest fat that needs trimming, but employees working closer to the bone.
*Disclosure: I’m a county employee*

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:36:36 +0000

I find it ironic that whenever the Administration has to trim some fat they find vacant jobs to eliminate. It makes one wonder just how many vacant positions the Administration holds open to give themselves wiggle room in the budget? If we have been getting the job done with these positions vacant were they ever really necessary to begin with?

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