September 2017: Relax, the Big Cull Is Over
I’ve heard a lot of weird and wonderful stories about our industry over the past 16 years, the veracity of which I have had no real cause to question. For example, back in the early 2000s, Deutsche Bank was rumored to have had approximately 10,000 contractors globally on its books, brought on board primarily in response to the bank’s concerns around the Y2K crossover at the start of the new millennium. I knew one back-office contractor personally who would turn up for work with a bunch of
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