One of those meaningless management surveys that large organisations are fond of and seem to think are essential to their smooth running has been published by DEXEU (HERE). I note in skipping through it that on page 2, staff were asked about their plans for the future and apparently 44% want to leave the department in the next year. A further 48% wanted to stay for at least a year while only 8% want to remain more than three years.
It's hard to know if this is a reflection of the short term nature of Brexit or not but if I worked somewhere that had nearly half the workforce planning to leave, either as soon as possible (11%) or within the year (33%) I would be a teeny bit concerned. I suppose it's a good job that David Davis is heading it up. A normal person may well be worried but since he doesn't know what's going on anyway he can still carry on as if nothing's wrong.
In another document on costs there are sums of money paid to other Whitehall departments for staff transferred to DEXEU. It's possible some staff are on short term contracts but nonetheless, losing almost half your staff cannot be helpful.
I also note on the DEXEU website David Davis had dinner with Paul Dacre, the hate filled editor of the hate filled Daily Mail (HERE) on 18th July. Meanwhile The Guardian (HERE) report that DEXEU has the worst record in government at answering FOI requests, failing to respond to around 60% of requests in the past year.
This is the spluttering machine responsible for the most complex negotiations ever undertaken by a British government. Reassured? No, I thought not.
