My company have just employed The Hay group to define job roles

[SizeZero]

From my experience, if they bring in 'HR' people, they are looking to

* restructure
* interview everyone for the (lesser number of) new jobs (possibly at lower rates)
* make redundant the people whose old jobs no longer exist


These people are never brought in to create new jobs or make your daily chores less stressful while they rearrange job roles. They are there to cut costs for the one paying their fee.

[NotAllThere]

They did it at British Gas back in the 90s. It's a way of standardising job roles/responsibilities/grades. However, one of the consultants working on it, told me that he could write a job description for any job, and depending on certain key words, define the grade it would end up on.

[Pickle2]

nope was a contractor, now permie.

Let me guess, you switched for the greater job security right?

[Fred Bloggs]

They did it at British Gas back in the 90s. It's a way of standardising job roles/responsibilities/grades. However, one of the consultants working on it, told me that he could write a job description for any job, and depending on certain key words, define the grade it would end up on.

Yes, that's pretty much correct. I went through such a process when employed years ago at ICI who used Hay grades. Often, if you had a really good manager (I never did) they would rewrite your job description to give you a grade or two pay increase. It never happened to me though, which is partly why I left as my face didn't fit the corporate mold.

[centurian]

...and this would be of interest to a CONTRACTORS forum for why, exactly?

Although we don't consider ourselves employee's of ClientCo - that doesn't stop ClientCo from viewing us a such - just a flexible (i.e. sackable) employee.

So if their brief is to look at all the possible types of resources, then yes, it could affect contractors.