Tough Business Environment for Battelle: New Competitors in a Shrinking Market while Shouldering High Labor Wrap Rates - Manager Battelle Employee Review

Business processes, while currently being revised, are still clunky at best. Lawyers, corporate, and business offices still not flexible and responsive. High laboratory costs passed to clients in extremely high labor rates, making Battelle technical staff too expensive and so non-competitive when bidding against R&D contractors without these overhead burdens. This is being addressed by management, but at a glacial pace.