Its much like that in many Govt departments. They have grown bloated with their budgets over time and now they are being told to trim back. The Govt culture finds getting rid of staff very hard to do, 'cause you now don't have lots of people you are responsible for and look less important. The entire system needs a reset and people at the coalface need empowering and the kilometres of middle management need to go find something else to do that doesn't involve sucking on the taxpayers tit.
A classic example: My father in law told me that when he was a house surgeon at Palmy Nth hospital just before the war there were 200 beds and six administrators. And everything worked fine. 45 years later when he retired there were 220 beds and 200 administrators.
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