Privatized jobs return to the public sector as governments discover the flaws of contracting out.
The blaze gave management an incentive to contract out the work to a private company. Lawn maintenance operations that had been contracted out a decade ago also have been brought back in-house. You ve got to have good people, and I have good people. While 90 percent of respondents said they had contracted out public services that were being performed in-house five years earlier, only 40 percent said they monitored contractors to ensure goals were met. Without monitoring, public agencies have no way to gauge the success or failure of privatization.