the maths
14 million divided by 5500 = 2 545.45455
Computacenter has won a £14m contract to supply desktop support and PC supply at 650 offices and bus stations run by FirstGroup. Bus company FirstGroup has 5,500 computer users. It runs 8,500 buses and four franchise train services. The five-year contract will include running a central help desk, sourcing hardware. …
Why do you work one dimensionally?
How uneconomical would it be to have a news agent that only can sell one type of newspaper to only one person per shop per day...
The same people that support those 5500 users also support thousands and thousands of other users throughout Europe and the Middle East, South Africa and parts of the USA. In the great scheme of things, £14mil is not an awful lot for a company like Copmputacenter but when it is multiplied serveral times then they make much $$
well now that they're being third party dog's in larger contracts to the likes of cap gemini etc who beat them in the tender process then get them in at reduced rates...they need all the help they can get.
And maybe a free bus pass or two since the CEO's helicopter got sold.