16th October 2009, 04:01 PM
windbag Wrote:It's normally the junior staff that undertake the profit-making activities of a company (fieldwork, post-ex work), so if redundancies hit the workforce but leave the management intact, the company as a whole will be less efficient, less profitable and more likely to go under
Of course managers don't carry out any profit-making activities - apart from tendering for the work in the first place, producing project designs/WSI, managing the projects....
The reason managers survive is because you need a lot less of them to carry out their, still essential and profit making, roles.
Still can't write the words 'profit-making' in an archaeological context without crying with laughter, and then just crying!