tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660245739708697440.post1468795828161238919..comments2023-06-04T16:53:03.592+03:00Comments on Philip Atticus: Yes, but…Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706813821954088317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660245739708697440.post-50055788051709449722012-02-07T08:40:47.258+02:002012-02-07T08:40:47.258+02:00Geia sou Philippe. I agree 100%. As I've said ...Geia sou Philippe. I agree 100%. As I've said before here, the idea of blanket headcount reductions without a productivity plan and a vision for the public sector will only result in chaos. <br /><br />I don't know if you've read this post, but the actual data on public sector employment are also misrepresented. <br /><br />http://www.philip-atticus.com/2011/09/public-sector-employment-in-greece.html<br /><br />The debate as to what Greece wants from its public sector has never been held. There is no end of slogans, such as “free education for all”, or “permanent employment in the civil service” but these slogans do not reflect reality. We have not heard a debate or seen any analysis as to which sectors of the public sector deserve higher salaries and investments in productivity (and there are many such sectors), and which sectors require a down-sizing or restructuring. There is no global plan for liberalising state involvement in some sectors, such as education and healthcare, or for improving services to citizens through the use of egovernment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04706813821954088317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660245739708697440.post-4600778158130929122012-02-06T09:48:50.850+02:002012-02-06T09:48:50.850+02:00Dear Philip, can we reduce the public sector witho...Dear Philip, can we reduce the public sector without updating it, investing in more effective, less beaurocratic working methods, such as replacing all those ugly dusty dossiers with interlinked computer data bases? Reducing in size, but retaining the same model will only end up making it completely inefective-- if papers continue to have to go around from office to office to get signatures or get lost in piles as they now do, and departments work with no coordination, blocking one antother. <br />I have seen no push to this goal, which to my experience, from Athens Municipality at least is the most needed and would in the long run save alot of money. However, this would require a real investment and metality change. Same should happen to Greek legislation, as it is now just makes most things impossible...we are only going towards shrinkig up but not changing. The discussion shoud be about "how" and not "how much". Working method and not size should be the priority. We should spend on changing our methods and then we could really see what positions/functions in the public sector are required. Some should be reinforced, others dissapear. Social economy, if planned out with transparency (if!) could also be an itermediate solution to privatization, producing a safety net for those at a disadvantage.Philip Dragoumishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01044099879460394165noreply@blogger.com