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Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed

UCL Uncovering Politics

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Is There an Example Where Too Much Control Is Leading to Bad?

The average tenure in the agency, i don't think it's in the paper, but basically, the average person hired was leaving in something like three months. And as we sert of talked to people in the agency and talked to current and former workers, it was clear thatBasically, this was an incredibly high intensity job, incredibly stressful job. I couldn't do this job, if i'm honest. We thought they had a problem that it didn't matter what people were trained to do, because they were just out the door. But it actually wasn't the working environment that was chasing people away. It was sense that, because of how many kids there were to serve, and how

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