The problem at the moment is the suspicion that the economy is being used as an excuse for greedy cost cutting (by both government and business). If my client were genuinely in some sort of trouble, I would be open to helping, but most clients don't disclose accounts.

As an example, one client had the cheek to have next upgraded executive cars delivered to their offices on the same day redundancy notices went out. A day later the contractors arrived to reconfigure the car part because the new cars were a bit too wide for the existing bays.