branch and staff at other local branches. This is because I sometimes need to contact other branches to arrange management meetings or to borrow staff from other branches on a temporary basis to cover staff shortages due to sickness or during holiday periods. This borrowing of staff between local branches is informal and thankfully doesn’t happen very often. Besides data on staff, it would be helpful to see other types of data at the other branches such as data on property, property owners, clients, and leases, you know, to compare notes.
Actually, I think the Director hopes that this database project is going to help promote cooperation and sharing of information between branches. However, some of the Managers I
know are not going to be too keen on this because they think we’re in competition with each other. Part of the problem is that a percentage of a Manager’s salary is made up of a bonus,
which is related to the number of properties we rent out.