We love Carillion?
Not a client but, hey, they can’t do everything right… Carillion is enduring some bad press just now, prompted by its shake-out of recently acquired Alfred McAlpine.
At least 350 jobs are to go at McAlpine’s base in Tannochside, the old HQ of its 2002 acquisition Stiell. The local paper is up in arms and there’s even a Facebook group called ‘We hate Carillion’*.
We don’t know the ins and outs. We sympathise with those having to look for new jobs. But from where we sit, that there are even 350 jobs to cut at an old Facilities Management HQ is evidence of plenty of fat and a lack of integration into the old McAlpine.
Carillion’s right to fix that - and in business being right is more important than being loved.
*’We hate Carillion’ currently has 17 members. Disappointingly, there’s no one there we recognise.
