Reading a business magazine the other day, I read an article about preparing for a pandemic. The following quotation is from the president of a consultancy firm that specializes in preparing companies for pandemics and similar events:
"Prioritize who needs to be there. Most companies don't have the ability to really objectively identify who is critical, because everyone thinks they are. We generally find that in a pandemic, the poorly paid, unrecognized people are the backbone, and the senior guys can go home. They're the visionaries, but in a pandemic we don't think that role is terribly critical. It's the forklift drivers, the guys loading and unloading the trucks and the supervisors you really need to sustain critical operations."This is what Labour Unions have been trying to get across for a more than a century. Perhaps if enough consultancy firms said things like this (because, after all, businesses appear to be relying on consultants more and more each year) the 'visionaries' would become part-time employees and the really important people could get on with the real work...
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