Public servants leaving the workforce should focus on knowledge transfer | Letters to the Editor

The plan to streamline the public service is appropriate.  But as is often observed, the impact of staff reductions in any organization depends just as much on the transfer and retention of organizational knowledge as on the physical headcount.  It's not how many remain, but whether functional capacity is retained, by them knowing what their former colleagues learned over the years.  It is hard to imagine any entity which relies on organizational knowledge quite as much as government does.  This is, however, a bureaucratic challenge, not a political one. Read More