Gov. Jerry Brown’s 5-year-old plan to remodel state government has run into an institutional illness: hoarding.
The Anxiety and Depression Society of America says hoarders have trouble tossing out junk, struggle with categorizing or organizing and are suspicious of others touching their possessions. As their living space shrinks, they become isolated and can even become physically ill from the hazardous lifestyle.
The state is confronting decades of human resources hoarding as it tries to clean up the litter of ad hoc job classifications added to the government organization charts with no thought of the big picture.
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