Public sector privatisation at it's finest! - Anonymous employee Shared Services Connected Employee Review

For those who don't know, SSCL is an outsource solution to some of the public sector services such as HR / Recruitment/ Training etc. Their sole purpose is to make money off the public sector, something we were constantly reminded of was the amount of money the company had to make by 2020. Most staff are ex public sector who were laid off and then re-hired into SSCL. Most don't even have job titles in order to make it easier for them to be moved around the company into other various roles. I was part of a new team which I believe was born out of a mass laying off of staff. Management then realised that they'd fired almost an entire department with little thought for the consequences and the services they were contracted to provide for the public sector. As a result of this, my team and I were greeted by angry clients from day one and we had to clean up the mess our manager had made as all previous data and ongoing projects had been lost when the dept was let go. Don't get me started on work life balance - its none existent. The company boasts growth, new clients and profits when in reality they're absorbing more public sector services while continuing to sponge money off the tax payer. A client in the public sector who I liaised with would remind me that she knew where to get our work done cheaper but she was contractually bound to use SSCL where the decision was out of her hands. I had to leave in the end as I was tired of empty promises in the hope that we'd help our clients save money and provide a good service. I was tired of the constant pulling from one thing to another in order to tidy the mess my manager made as well as having to deal with my own workload. I could not stand to have my career under her influence anymore.