28th July 2010, 04:21 PM
Foe all the benefits available to those working for a large organisation, I am extremely worried about the impact this merger may have on small and medium sized units who have to compete, as I think they could easily be muscled out by the resources of such an organisation. I think Wessex is quite big enough already (and that goes for Oxford etc as well). The expansion of the super-units across England could in the long term lead to privatised central units and I don't see that as good for wages etc, we might as well go back the EH Central Unit of decades gone past.
Perhaps I'm being unduly sceptical, but I believe a degree of regionality is a good thing - based on knowledge not just corporate practice.
Perhaps I'm being unduly sceptical, but I believe a degree of regionality is a good thing - based on knowledge not just corporate practice.