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October 2013 BBC DG Lord Hall unveils his vision: "We are going to simplify the organisation".

November 2016: The BBC advertises for an HR Senior Advisor, Complex Reporting. "To participate (and sometimes lead on behalf of the Complex Reporting Lead) in the production of scheduled, ad hoc, and specialised reporting for central and operational HR, and wider business requirements where verified by the aligned HR operational structure, to agreed service levels (where applicable) or custom agreement"

• Real HR Nerds will be delighted to learn from the advert that the the successful candidate will have to work with a new ‘HR Reporting Suite’ as being currently developed by BBC Scotland resources, clearly the go-to-boys for knocking together a piece of bespoke software for a bespoke system. Simpler, but still very special....