With regards to human resource strategies of government departments, over 65 per cent of departments rated themselves as not complying with the prescripts of organisational design and ensuring that all positions on the approved structure were funded. Just fewer than 90 per cent of departments had vacancy rates of above 10 per cent for professionals and Senior Management Service (SMS) members. The Commission was concerned that human resource management frameworks had become too complex. The State's human resource strategies needed to be streamlined and simplified.