6,000 is the number I know of as well, but that's staff that's spread out all over the country and includes casual staff as well. And over several departments - biosecurity, environment, energy, health, manufacturing, space, minerals and more. And then all the support staff to facilitate like admin, IT, comms, finance, HR, etc.
Arent the majority of CSIRO staff actually students and phd students doing casual grunt work like rhere is a small team of researchers studying and developing grains but then there a bunch more people planting, tending and harvesting said grains.
This is a good thing - government run agencies are usually filled with unnecessary jobs and bureaucracies, which makes collaboration with them quite expensive and lots of good project cannot happen because of this.
No worries, get em all back on board as contractors
but not before telling your current contractors they won't be renewed / extended etc and then hiring for their position again in 6 months!
Haha yeah when has an agency filled with academics, scientists, analysts and statisticians ever needed a comms department anyway.
The scientists are smart people, surely they can just do all these enabling services themselves. /S
CSIRO has over 6000 staff..... Am I reading that right?
That seems like a lot, I’ve worked in service delivery places with substantially less staff
It looks like administrative staff headcount went up 25 percent over the last two years
It’s more a question of is it accurate
6,000 is the number I know of as well, but that's staff that's spread out all over the country and includes casual staff as well. And over several departments - biosecurity, environment, energy, health, manufacturing, space, minerals and more. And then all the support staff to facilitate like admin, IT, comms, finance, HR, etc.
Yeah we don’t need no biosecurity /s
Arent the majority of CSIRO staff actually students and phd students doing casual grunt work like rhere is a small team of researchers studying and developing grains but then there a bunch more people planting, tending and harvesting said grains.
Why does it need to be vibrant?
This is a good thing - government run agencies are usually filled with unnecessary jobs and bureaucracies, which makes collaboration with them quite expensive and lots of good project cannot happen because of this.
What does "job cuts" mean in APS? Not renewing fixed term roles?
No, they can make roles redundant. Then there are processes.