Perhaps needs to be hived off to a large specialist subcontractor who does nothing but.
Not sure about that. Subcontracting doesn't always work out and all it ends up doing is lining someone else's pocket.
The thing I have against subcontracting is quite often the 'real men' who do the digging or whatever get paid peanuts and no job guarantee. These workers are less likely to take pride in their work.
Take for eg the subcontracting to Kelly/MJQuinn. Seriously do you breathe a sigh of relief if an Openreach engineer turns up rather than a contractor? How many times with FTTC installs did OR end up having to send out their own guys to fix mistakes by the contractors?
Subcontracting is cheap primarily due how much is paid to the worker, nor have to worry about permanent contracts or pensions etc.
One of the plus points for me about BT is that they provide real apprenticeships and not use people as cheap labour , then lay them off when they arent getting the
gov subsidy. I personally know several young people who despite being hard working, gets kicked out of a job with a pathetic excuse as the term of apprenticeship draws to a close. Then a few weeks later the company is recruiting more cheap labour. Its exceedingly hard for many youngsters these days to enter into a decent job.
/rant.