- management consultancy Knox D'Arcy.
Junior staff in local authorities were, on average, productive only 32% of the time during working hours
To put it in context the private sector only manages 44%, but thats still 37% better.
- Dave Prentis
It is a red herring to compare private and public sector productivity
I'd agree with that, expectations of productivity in the public sector should be much higher than the private sector. The public sector provides vital services (or so we keep being told) and has a monopoly on providing those services the price they chose, plus there's no ultimate sanction. In the private sector in most cases people can take their business elsewhere and ultimately a very inefficient business will go bust.
- Dave Prentis
How can you measure the productivity of a care worker and compare it with a car worker on a production line?
Quite easily really, that care worker will have set tasks to do during the working shift which hopefully will include quality contact time with the residents. Time not spent doing these duties is ineffieicency. Typical emotive example chosen to try and make out the public sector is somehow special. You're not. You have a job to do, do it efficiently with professionalism and pride, it's the least tax payers ought to be able to expect. You're not the only ones seeing perks, benefits and basic wage deflation, the difference is most people in the private sector undersatnd to some extent you only have the job if your customers are willing and able to pay your bill.