Originally Posted by
Swiss Tony
[cynical capitalist]
BAe is an ex-public sector outfit. We have a "wonderful" scheme in the UK called TUPE which probably requires the old BAe guard to have someone wipe their arse with warmed, quilted Andrex, never mind take a train somewhere. I still fail to believe - having worked for big companies split across sites - that having private planes to shuttle middle managers around en masse is a necessity when in the real world we work effectively with a telephone.
[/cynical capitalist]
And no doubt much is achieved on the telephone, video conference, in Costa Coffee (which is where I do a lot of my meetings) etc. But I do have to meet in person other people and most business people I know also have to do that. I should imagine most people on this board fully understand that - which is why they are frequent flyers in the first place. I very much doubt that, after many years in the private sector, there are many senior BAe employees left who owe their job or status to the TUPE regulations, daft as they may be.