Being in London provides a much better pool of staff to recruit from and the small savings outside London would be a false economy".
Hampton said he and Alexander were considering setting a new target for the executive pipeline of each company – the talent pool of staff thought destined for the top jobs.
A spokesperson from Pizza Express said it chooses to charge 8 per cent on the pool of staff tips (the "tronc") but does not take National Insurance off the tip, which would amount to 12.8 per cent.
"We've been able to tackle those issues, we've got a big specialist pool of staff.
"Some services provided directly to the public will be improved by having a larger pool of staff to process their enquiries," he said.
The FG guides were pre-tested using a pool of staff from a nearby health facility not targeted for inclusion in the pool of FG participants.
4. Key informants, drawn from a pool of staff with knowledge and experience of the relevant partner organizations and nominated by RG members.
Providers in the public sector consistently reported that the pool of staff to provide healthcare services (e.g. physiotherapy, continence services) was constrained by department budgets.
But a deeper pooling of the staffs could be expected to provide new opportunities for collaboration between the organizations.
In understaffed settings with high turnover, a possible strategy to offset this challenge would be to expand the initial training in order to establish a larger pool of trained staff, creating redundancy and allowing other staff members to substitute for those who leave.
Facility managers reported that workload, which had been a long-standing and worsening problem in Malawi, was being tackled in several ways, including: training and rotating additional clinical staff through HIV/AIDS clinics, thereby increasing the pool of trained staff and reducing the risk of 'burn-out'.
