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Is the Credit Crunch hitting Archaeology?
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9th August 2008, 07:38 PM
Think it depends on which part of the country you work in. That would be for new sites anyway - providing the budget is still happy I'm sure plenty of units (you know who you are!!) have a sizeable backlog of reports which will easily outlast "credit crunch". (who comes up with these silly alliterations anyway?)
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10th August 2008, 11:47 AM
It is funny where there may indeed be a national divide... it does seem that the south is taking on more staff -
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11th August 2008, 03:06 PM
I'm not sure the overall level of projects has changed much (at least further south) but the type of projects does appear to have changed. (e.g. infrastructure/commercial rather than residential). There is potentially a problem with that though, as many contracting organisations do not have the experience of putting in large commercial tenders of the sort required for big infrastructure jobs.
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13th October 2008, 02:23 PM
How do people feel now? Still hitting?
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13th October 2008, 02:31 PM
Pretty quiet here. We're all still here though..........
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13th October 2008, 05:10 PM
Yes, same here. It's much quieted than this time last year, but possibly no worse than 8-10 years ago!
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31st October 2008, 07:40 PM
Pretty shocking results here... and the lay offs I am hearing about and lack of fieldwork jobs seems to bear this out
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