Ten senior civil servants left the Government Digital Service (GDS) in the year to April, the BBC has learned. This has prompted concern as to why the service cannot hang on to its most experienced staff.
The GDS, which was set up within the Cabinet Office in 2011, helps to support the digital transformation of government, working with departments to introduce and improve online services.
An opposition MP has said the news is "alarming".
A BBC freedom of information request revealed that the GDS lost 10 senior civil servants - of deputy director level and above - across the 2015-16 financial year. The service had 21 senior posts in total as of March 2016.
[...] Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, expressed concern at these departures.
"It should be deeply worrying to see some of the brightest talent in the civil service leaving public service to go and work in the private sector," he said.
"Ministers need to make sure that staff feel empowered and engaged, and at the moment it's clear that many civil servants feel neither."
Government workers need to feel "empowered and engaged."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Friday December 16 2016, @05:39AM
That's kinda how things work. Increase your salary, increase your upward mobility, drop 90% of the rules government workers suffer. Voila, problem solved.
Except the salary is defined by their definition of Congress, open jobs are subject to connections, and 90% of the rules keep things as they are.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @05:47AM
The United Republic Of Great Brain And North Aiur has a Congress now?