I can say for certain that approx 12 years ago, the county of San Diego had a little over 27K employees and the City of San Diego had approximately 23,500 employees.
Even back then, it was a hardship keeping up with the workload when employees took vacations, were out sick or injured or were on FML.
I can’t imagine how they’re doing today with this severely reduced workforce. Are they really that much more automated in that they don’t need the former amount of employees?
My counter-service experiences in recent years tells me no. The public is now likely waiting longer for everything and the work backlogs are enormous and unrelenting, even moreso than in the past. In addition, the county population has gone up by 400-500K since then and the City population by 80-100K.
I don’t see any more cutbacks in this constellation unless the public is okay with reducing business hours of almost ALL local agencies.
