The single transferable vote system is complicated for many journalists to explain.
Fran Unsworth at BBC News seems to have found it equally hard to explain to her disgruntled hacks how making them list in order their top three jobs, by location, will translate into a smaller, happier, more effective division.
So the "Preference Survey", annnounced four weeks ago, has now been paused, whilst Fran and her colleagues go searching for 'greater clarity'. Once they've found where they put it, they promise to bring it back to the unions for further discussion. Sadly, Fran's sticking to her timetable - if you've done the survey already, that stays (I'd ask for two or three more attempts, wouldn't you ?) - and the deadline for completion is still 18th June.
From a distance, this process hardly looks like a triumph for News' interim HR director Kirsty Lee - though she may not be the one who dreamed up this barmy three favourite jobs idea.
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