Workstream lead

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Workstream lead
/wɜːkstriːm/ /liːd/ (n.)

Sounds glamorous. Isn’t.

One engaged, usually on a temporary basis, to set up a “business change” program whereby outwardly useful employees will be distracted from whatever they are doing and instructed to strip paint off a bucket, so the bucket can be given to another employee to paint properly, so a third one can strip paint from it again. And so on.

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• Legal operations
• LinkedIn job descriptions