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engaged, usually as an independent contractor, to prod permanent employees through a mandated “business change” programme, whereby outwardly useful staff are systematically distracted from whatever it is they can usually expect to contribute to the firm’s collective wellbeing, and obliged instead to undertake some Sisyphean task or other in the service of a vague aspirational journey the firm has unwisely embarked upon or, worse, some horribly specific compulsory regime its regulators have imposed upon it. The latter we call a “regulatory change programme”.

In either case, one employee will be 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, all under the watchful glare of a workstream lead, being one with no appreciable skill beyond matchless tolerance for tedium and a fathomless appetite for all-hands conference calls, action logs, dashboards and RAG statuses.