| Public servants are wasting at least 1,690,720 hours a year on pointless exercises that are routed by political motive at the last minute - the equivalent to a year's work for 42,268 full-time staff. The figures, released by a frustrated worker at one government department, showed that the cost of lost productivity amounted to $48m based on average public sector hourly earnings. "It takes me six months to achieve in a government department what I could do in six hours in private enterprise," said the government employee, who did not wish to be named. "And even then, the work I do achieve is diluted down because I have to tippy-toe around everyone and ensure I don't allow anyone to feel inadequate because I've found a gap in their processes." A National spokesperson branded the public servant situation as ridiculous. "If we were in power there'd only be 30,000 people wasting their work hours, instead of this inflated 42,000," she said. |
| Public Servants wasting 1.7 million hours |
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:17
