1st November 2011, 06:40 PM
P Prentice Wrote:The big corporate operators grow ever bigger and ever fatter, but is this at the expense of smaller operators and one-man-bands?
I have to say, I haven't really noticed work for small and medium organisations drying up, certainly not to the extent that you're suggesting. Indeed, most of the job losses I've seen have been at the larger companies, who've found that they don't have enough work to sustain the staff levels they built up during the good years. I'd say that there's always likely to be a place for one-man bands, dealing with small householder-developments, so I'd have expected any squeeze to have had most impact on medium-size companies, but at least in Scotland, they seem to be doing OK. It's difficult to be certain, as obviously no-one's going to advertise to their competitors that they're in financial trouble, but so far as I'm aware, GUARD are the only medium-sized Scottish unit that's closed in the last few years, and that was mainly due to problems with the University administration (and indeed, two new companies have been formed from the fallout).
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum