Absolutely.
I worked in an operational unit in a state government department.
We were the ones who did analysis to decide where to pay out public money, and to provide answers to letters and emails from the public.
After 15 years of working with this process, new communications units were created to rewrite our factual letters and fill them with the current political propaganda.
The end result often did not address the query, so further letters were exchanged. Completely inefficient for the workflow and annoying for the correspondent.
During a job freeze, several of these high-paying ‘Communications’ jobs were advertised externally, bringing in more employees rather than promoting existing employees.
And most public sector employees automatically get pay increases for ‘productivity’. So they would vote for higher pay for themselves rather than save jobs of a proportion of colleagues.
But while operational jobs were cut, the elite political hacks kept theirs.
Keep the operations units running and gut the non-productive spin doctors.