There is also the system of internal secondment, which allows some judges to work as consultants for large fees in certain ministries at the same time as they are judging cases, fundamentally undermining the principle of judicial neutrality.
He joined the DH on secondment from the NHS in 2005 to work on reducing cancer waits, elective waiting times, and the implementation of patient choice and booking.
An additional component of the training program involves 1- to 3-month secondments (at least one secondment per fellow) hosted by EDA-EMERGE partner institutes to work on aspects of the PhD research where the host institute possesses specialized expertise in analytical techniques or data analysis not typically associated with the home institute.
Secondments also work in reverse, with civil servants going to work in the energy industry, such as a two-year secondment to Shell and another to Horizon Nuclear Power, a joint venture of E.ON and RWE npower that aims to build nuclear power stations in the UK.
The station was short-staffed because many were on secondments to various government services, such as operating other radio stations and training new radio officers to work in naval convoys.
So I went to work as a learning and teaching consultant for Lincolnshire council and that's when the job at Long Sutton came up, originally as a secondment.
He was now on secondment to MI6, with its focus on foreign targets and intelligence-gathering, becoming more of a spy than a desk-bound technician, although Williams would shortly be called back to GCHQ to work on a new and ambitious project.
The inquiry has previously been told that some employees of the big four accounting firms work on secondment to the ATO and Treasury to help provide advice on tax matters.
During a six-month secondment to the firm's cable works in Gloucestershire, he wrote the first two chapters of a realist novel, in the manner of Arnold Bennett, based on the life of his father.
Snowden, who spent a decade working with various defence contractors on secondment to the CIA and the NSA as a communications specialist, reiterated that he had delayed going public because of his hope that Barack Obama's election would mark a sea change but he had ended up disillusioned.
