I’m so torn about all this. I’m work for a federal contracting firm and my husband is energetic responsibility.
One the one hand, just a few of the groups I labored with on the federal facet had been actually, actually incompetent. Our workforce of contractors needed to drag them kicking and screaming into the fashionable period of venture administration. I can not emphasize how poorly this explicit workforce functioned. Fortunately this explicit workforce was comparatively low influence on the operations of the company, however wow.
However the cuts themselves aren’t carried out by goal analysis. The funds reduce resulted within the measurement of our contract workforce being halved, although it was a agency mounted contract. So mainly the division has much less competent individuals to get the work carried out, AND hasn’t saved any cash. Our HR individual was beside themselves, having to let go of about 10% of our workforce with little discover. We’re a small enterprise so there’s additionally been a pause on some advantages (not the large stuff like insurance coverage, however issues like gymnasium/commuter reimbursement).
On my husband’s facet, that they had simply introduced in an EXTREMELY certified civilian to assist their workforce. And the aim of the workforce he works on is to investigate navy logistics operations that aren’t hitting their productiveness necessities, discover out what’s flawed, and assist them repair it. They’ve saved the navy tens of millions of {dollars} and man hours with a workforce of lower than 20 energetic responsibility navy of us (each enlisted and officers). They had been seeking to broaden with civilian employees as a result of their experience was so in demand.
It feels so surreal and irritating to see all of this taking place.