In the post “Is your communication department getting the resources it deserves?”, the Melcrum Blog reports on the results of Melcrum’s tri-annual international research into communication budgets, salaries and structure. What struck me was the average number of employees in respondents’ internal communications departments: 13.8! Does that seem like a large number to anyone else?
Maybe it’s just because I was twice part of a three-member team — me, my boss and our administrator. No wonder we had the feeling we were trying to do it all! Oh well, it was certainly good training at working quickly and multi-tasking, two skills I now put to use just about every day.
