{"id":4366,"date":"2009-07-31T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T07:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T07:53:17","slug":"useless-wasted-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/31\/useless-wasted-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless, wasted bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/57bc4de2-7cdc-11de-9f29-00144feabdc0.html\">FT.com \/ Companies \/ Oil &amp; Gas - Shell sheds 150 senior managers in shake-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the senior managers at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/markets.ft.com\/tearsheets\/performance.asp?s=uk:RDSB\">Royal Dutch Shell<\/a><\/strong> have been made to re-apply for their positions and 150 of them have lost their jobs, the company revealed on Friday as it warned of substantial further job cuts spreading across the group.<\/p>\n<p>The 750 executives in what is called the EC-2 level, two steps down from the top executive committee, have been cut to 600 in the <a class=\"bodystrong\" title=\"Shell clears way for senior shake-up \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1b6b8f88-49c9-11de-8e7e-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">shake-up<\/a>launched by Peter Voser (pictured right), the new chief executive who took over at the beginning of the month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That's 20% of managers doing non-jobs that can be dispensed with.<\/p>\n<p>Useless, wasted bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>And then they say the public sector is inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why is that? Is it becasue they've got time on their hands?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Companies \/ Oil &amp; Gas &#8211; Shell sheds 150 senior managers in shake-up. All the senior managers at Royal Dutch Shell have been<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/31\/useless-wasted-bureaucracy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}