What is driving the BBC's redundancy programme: red tape, hard cash - or its ongoing 'battle' to maintain its Charter Status?

When forthewantofanail.org was launched a little over a month ago, a common theme of the dialogue I had with people at various levels of the BBC  centred around the impact of hiring practice in organisations operating in ‘the real world’; a tacit acknowledgement that the institution that is ‘Auntie Beeb’ is a law unto itself, unaffected by those economic realities that rule employment in commerce and industry.

How quickly things can change. The recent announcement of close to four thousand job losses across the BBC proving that nothing is sacred when it comes to hard cash.

But what has a campaign with the purpose of exposing the impacts of hiring practice got to do with a mass redundancy programme at one of the world’s most famous institutions?

Let me answer this with the rhetorical question that this campaign routinely asks: What should be driving hiring practice other than the objectives of the organisation?

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