Four years on from Covid, the Civil Service’s reluctance to return to the office is tanking productivity and leaving empty desks in its wake. In the Telegraph, Tom Haynes explains how the pampered civil service’s obsession with working from home is costing us all.
Here’s an excerpt: "The Conservatives tried to force staff to turn up to their place of work just three days out of five, but the small ask was met with intense resistance.The new Labour Government has so far failed to lay out any demands at all. All the while, the Government’s weekly office attendance figures have remained unpublished since the General Election was called.
Yet while public sector productivity has fallen, Labour is now dangling an inflation-busting pay rise in front of civil servants – many of whom are making considerable savings on childcare and commuting costs by doing their jobs at home. …"
aily Sceptic
(Maybe it's better if they work less. The less they do, the less damage they can cause)
