Funny story on the BBC about UK”s Network Rail holding a staff conference in Coventry but the firm says it costs too much for them to go by rail.
Instead the 200 staff will cover the 116m journey from Reading by coach.
The saving: $54,000.
If open return tickets were bought for all the staff it could cost up to $60,000 – $3025 each. But coach travel, at $26 a head, will cost just $5739.
There was an international report recently that said that UK rail fares were among the highest relatively in the world. You would hope this would be a wake up for the company but in fact the company gloated about how good they are at cost cutting exercises when it comes to staff.
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