I dipendenti pubblici hanno detto di trascorrere più tempo in carica come lavorando da casa in scala
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/01/31/civil-servants-told-to-spend-more-time-in-office-as-government-scales-back-working-from-home/
di sarcasticmidlander
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2/3 days a week is fair if they’ve not been hired as remote workers.
If a role can be performed remotely, there is absolutely no reason to beckon people into an office. It’s 2025; we have an abundance of resources and technology at our disposal to facilitate at-home working across countless sectors. Most of us don’t care for workplace camaraderie and can’t be bothered with other people’s bs. Why is this overtly simple concept so difficult for certain employers to grasp?
It begins so, copying the Brits as usual.
So Instead of getting up and taking 2 mins to login & start answering emails, I’ll get up and spend 60+ mins in traffic to login & answer emails.
We are struggling to attract anyone to take our non-hybrid roles anymore as is. Have 2 unfilled since retirements last year. This is only going to make the staff shortages worse, meaning longer waits for the public for services.
Has to be some carrot to working in public sector. The money is bad (especially if you’re based in Dublin) & the post 2013 pension is also muck.
It’s not as if we have a *massive* congestion problem, lousy public transport, and a chronic housing crisis in the cities or anything like that.
Let’s dogmatically adopt a policy because that’s what the Brits and the American far right are leaning into.
If there’s one thing that improves efficiency it’s sitting in traffic for several hours a day.
I’ve noticed that Hybrid seems to be the standard now, certainly in IT. 2 days in the office. I can sya that after about 7 years working remotely as a developer the benefits to me and my family have been amazing, while I can confidently say my productivity has been significantly higher without meetings, commuting, and managerial distraction.
And let me guess, they’re so scared of trying their hand in the private sector that they’ll actually comply with that bullshit.
I negotiated one day in the office (Administrative position in a private company) as my role was quite solo in nature so there was no advantage to being in office multiple days.
I am contracted to go to the office 2 days a week and it’s almost a VALUELESS waste of my precious time.
If I am asked to spend more time in the office I will consider a career break, life’s too fucking short.
We all know people who want a return to the office stealthily want to thin the heard, good job guys really keep pushing my buttons you stupid pricks.
Won’t someone think of office building property values?
Unions. Unions. Unions.
If you can get in one – be in one. It’s the only way to insulate your terms from employers that just sniff and follow the trends from across the pond.
My last job was in the public sector and I was fully WFH. The handful of times I was in the office when it reopened after Covid I got barely any work done due to multiple distractions. It was an hour commute there and another hour back and a 10 hour shift, so it left me exhausted for the next day too. WFH is definitely more productive for the majority of people, so it’s sad to see that they’re still trying to force people into the office when there’s simply no need for it
The current traffic is a nightmare, could only imagine what it would be like if everyone was in 5 days
There are two reasons for bosses to insist people come back to the office, and neither have anything to do with benefits to workers or productivity. It’s either:
1) they’ve paid for a massively expensive and long lease and they need to justify that cost, or;
2) many firms are insisting on full time office because they know a lot of people will quit/find other jobs rather than return to commuting. It’s a way of downsizing without having to pay redundancy.
I cannot express how deeply depressing being in an office 5 days a week is.
Yes lets have more traffic, sure why not
So even the government aren’t supporting work from home
Finally something real for the opposition to act on.
Its been driving me insane that no political party, not even the greens, have been championing WFH incentives and protections.
Mary Lou, Holly, Ivana, Roderick. You’ve an easy easy win here. You get to point out the extra emissions from all the traffic. The extra pressure and congestion on our transport system. The reduced free time and quality of life of our citizens. The added pressure on housing in Dublin because people need to live near their workplace.
Thank goodness for our top notch public transport and childcare!
I went from unofficially having 3 days at home to officially having 3 days at home
Protip: I’ve heard of people requesting and being granted full WFH as a disability accommodation for their autism. Getting an adult autism diagnosis is a pain in the hole, but it may be a lesser one than having to commute.
“But I’m not autistic” we both know you are
Well we were told we’d never be allowed work remote, so I’ll take hybrid now.
Can you share the details?
My wife works from home a few days a week and she reckons she gets more done at home. Less distractions and having to make smalltalk with people
Be interested to see who backs down over this, FORSA are quite militant with their view and they will go in hard which they seem to have done here as well.
You can’t just decide to change something when there is an agreement in place and a union backing up workers.