Neue Regierung wird nicht die volle Rückkehr zum Amt für Beamte ausschließen
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/new-government-return-to-office-public-servants
Neue Regierung wird nicht die volle Rückkehr zum Amt für Beamte ausschließen
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/new-government-return-to-office-public-servants
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Won’t letting staff work for home and selling off some federal buildings help save money that the government is desperately trying to find
I assume this is part of the anticipated headcount reduction by giving people an incentive to quit or retire early.
They should look at how a similar proposal worked for the conservative side of politics in the recent Australian federal election …
There is no reason that a government purported to be trying to increase efficiency and lower costs wouldn’t fully oppose a full return to office for public servants.
maybe my friends and I are all lazy but we do feel way more productive working from the office, although idk how much public v. private sectors affect things
The headquarters of DND is in Kanata, at the old Nortel building. If the plan is to see increased staffing (either new hire or transfer from other departments) AND 5 days in the office, expect commuting problems and difficulty for people to get there.
Not only is the campus located outside the downtown core but the line ~~2~~ 3 LRT expansion to Moodie station, which would be the closest stop to DND, is not expected to open till at least ~~next year~~ 2027 and, even then, you will still need to tranfer onto a bus from Moodie station to DND.
I’m so mad at our Union. Pre-covid, my agency was planning on shifting some employees to working from home from temporarily to full-time to save costs on employees meeting performance metrics, so the troublemakers could be forced to stay in office. And let me tell you, some employees, especially entry-level took advantage of the work from home to an extreme degree.
Now because it’s unfair to allow work from home based on performance, the government is just thinking of making everyone come in full-time again because the union pushed for work from home fairness in the collective agreement, but didn’t get the government to agree to wfh actually being enforceable. Worse, they lied to employees saying „we got wfh in the collective agreement!“.
To be clear, I work in office full-time because I prefer it, with the occasional work from home day if I’m sick, but not too sick to work, or if I have someone coming by the house to do some work or something, but that’s max once per month. But good employees should have that flexibility. Instead the union pushed for equality of wfh, so either everyone gets it or nobody does. Shitty.
I know some agencies got rid of office space in line with government direction to reduce their real estate impact. Now if they are forced back into the office, they’ll need to lease more space.
Don’t worry extremely congested cities .. an appropriate amount of transit will be in place maybe a decade or two from now. 🤦
A step backwards with remote work.
We could reduce traffic that would reduce our need for infrastructure costs, and help reduce emissions as there are less cars on the road.
Also we need to stop centralizing work. And allow for a broader pool across Canada. This will also help build rural and small communities.
>“They have to get people back to work. I understand, even like three days – anything. It sounds crazy, I’m begging people to go back to work three days,“ Ford said during a media conference at Ottawa City Hall. „Not that they aren’t working from home, but it really affects the downtown. We need (the federal government) to bring people back to work, to go into the restaurants, to go into the shops downtown, get on transit and that’s what we need.“
>“It sounds crazy. I’m begging people to go to work for three days — not that they aren’t working at home, but it really affects the downtown.“
In other words, „we know this doesn’t affect productivity, there’s no business reason you can’t WFH, we just need to force you all to be customers for other businesses who can’t adapt to a changing world“.
[[source](https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ford-calls-on-federal-government-to-get-government-workers-back-to-the-office-in-ottawa/)]
This will make people on the internet furious, but my company enforced a return to office mandate recently and my productivity definitely increased. It was a bit of a shock getting used to it for a few weeks, but now it feels normal just like it did before 2020.
And I benefit from it too. Being more productive helps justify my salary, so I can feel more confident that I will keep my job.
Are there some highly motivated star performers who are more productive working from home? Sure. But there are a lot more slackers who use it to get away with not doing their jobs.
Most people abuse the WFH system and are less productive at home, so this makes sense, though for the people who are equally productive at home or even more productive, really really sucks for them =(