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Stingy DXC Tech tells staff to breathe in and tighten those belts

sawatts
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Different budgets - different responsibilities with no attribution to net costs.

When I was in part of the civil service in the 90s they changed travel expenses from 'per diem' to 'actuals' to cut costs. Under 'per diem' you got an allowance and kept what you didn't spend - so penny pinching hotels where the order of the day. Under 'actuals' you were only refunded for what you spent - so convience and hang to cost. Total travel expenses increased, obviously, but at least the peasants weren't making any money through "thrift".

More extreme (and the point at which I left) was graduate salaries being set by one group, and pay-rises by another. So by the end of my 10yrs there graduates where routinely coming in on higher salaries than the folks they were working for...

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