'No-one ever got fired for buying IBM' was the public servant's slogan of the 1970s and '80s. Now it is 'No-one ever got fired for buying Microsoft.'
In an effort to streamline the public service, the government has adopted an outsourcing policy - the public servants tender out the tasks rather than getting other public servants to do them. Unfortunately the decisions about what to do and who should do it are still being made by incompetent public servants, so the situation has hardly improved. Bum covering is still the dominant paradigm.
But it did get rid of at least some of the dead-wood.
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