Firm hired for Olympics security turns to budget-priced temps for leadership
Skift Take
Some days it seems as if everyone in a UK leadership position related to security and border control is struggling mightily to come up with a new way to fail, and today's disclosure that discount temps are calling the shots is a very novel idea.
The company has been using a team of less than 10 permanent staff alongside a 700-strong force of so-called managers to run the £284m contract.
Less than two months ago, G4S boasted to investors that this overall reliance on temporary managers on fixed-term contracts would keep costs down and simply be aided “with a bit of expertise from elsewhere in the group”.
Outlining the temporary management workforce in May, chief executive Nick Buckles said G4S had “learnt from previous companies’ experiences [that] the legacy costs of having a
