I dipendenti pubblici di mantenere gli accordi di lavoro remoti esistenti in attesa del processo di conferenze con i sindacati
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/01/31/civil-servants-to-keep-existing-remote-working-arrangements-pending-talks-process-with-unions/
di Banania2020
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And that’s why we’re in unions!
Good. Hilarious that these specific departments thought they would get away with this
Apparently some departments are reducing WFH days because staff in the office are missing their co-workers.
Fuck off.
Civil servants might actually have to do work if they were in the office
Wanting staff in the office two days a week seems pretty reasonable to me.
From some anecdotal feedback this seems to be driven by very specific people in department. I think Chairmen and A.Sec in revenue hate it.
I work for a company which was fully office pre 2020 (25 days WFH was our allowance). We’re a fully WFH company now, an office exists and those who wish to go in if they miss their co-workers can go. I am very happy being a loner at home and talking on Slack like it’s 2001 MSN.
Should be called the self service not the civil service.
I work from home 4 days a week in the CS since the return to the office after Covid, and my own efficiency hasn’t been affected at all, if anything I’m more efficient at home. Commuting 2+ hours a day to go to the office is a pain in the hole and doesn’t make me any more productive at all. About the only thing I can’t do at home is printing.
I’ve no doubt some people take the piss wfh (I know for sure some people definitely do), but those same people take the piss in the office too. If anyone thinks being in an office eliminates time wasting, they’re mad.
Civil service here.
We do 2 days, and I think that’s fine. But we only all do 1 day together as a team.
I could go in Friday as my second day and nobody else is there. What’s the point of that day except to present yourself at the office.
3 days in office I would accept, but be less happy about.
4 days and I’m going to fight it.
I have been two days in the office in a government department and it is often excessive. While there’s value in having a weekly team meeting and discussing certain details in-person, we often get through that in the one day, and there’s four days where we action what was decided. Except one of those is in the office unnecessarily, and I am simply doing the same work I could be doing at home except less efficiently, since I’m fatigued from the commute, it is hard to concentrate on reading and writing policy documents in a noisy open-plan office, and where phone calls have moved to teleconferencing since the pandemic, the environment in the office is inferior for communication where you either have people talking around you making it harder to parse the call, or you have the person next to you on a call and their interjections break you from your concentration.
It’s the one-size-fits-all approach that fails. There are definitely other roles that benefit from more office time, but it’s not mine.