Die parlamentarische Petition fordert, dass Bundesbedienstete drei Tage pro Woche aus der Ferne arbeiten sollen

It just makes sense. Less pollution. Less traffic for people who cannot take advantage of it. Less pressure on childcare providers. Less consumption of fuel during this crazy time period. Better working conditions can trickle potentially to private sector workers as companies are forced to match it.

I can see why the Feds won’t do it. I also know reddit has a hard on for remote work so I’ll probably get down voted.

Hybrid 2/3 was the best balance my office had with RYO (even though we did perfectly fine fully remote). Archaic people managers, boot lickers, people who crave social corporate culture, and new hires were getting the time they needed; and productivity remained relatively unchanged. We had a great 18 months at 2/3 until one day we woke up to 4/1 (with expectations that hire ups were in 5). No justification, no failure, no reason other than “2/3 worked so well that we now know 4/1 will be even better.

I would absolutely vote for a government that supported this move back to better hybrid.

We had a full time administrator at my work. During Covid management agreed to have her remote and to come to the office as needed. For the first six months the work was done equal, but after some time she started to slip, forgetting to print things here and there, she lived close by so we called her and she came to do it, but the fact remains- the started slipping after her job became remote work.

Let me tell you how stupid this really is:

I work in a high priority policy area. We are very busy and our teams are very small (3-4 people). We currently all mostly go into the office on the same three days a week but due to various commute times, we stagger in. All of us aren’t in the office together until usually ~9:30 with some of us starting as early at 7/7:30. We cannot sit together. We currently “hotel” and there is almost no way we can all get desks near each other and even when we do, there is no real reason for us to work next to each other as we are all our own priorities and various calls with other stakeholders. We have one large team meeting every two weeks and other than that we conduct the vast majority of our meetings on teams, even when we are all in the same building.
When we work from home, many of us eat and work at the same time, or we work unpaid OT if needed because what’s another 15-30min when you’re already at home. This NEVER happens in the office. People leave on the dot and take all their breaks as allowed. The narrative about supporting businesses is false as well – as it’s a “for lease” desert where we work with numerous shops closed AFTER we went back into the office 3 days a week. The business that survived the pandemic are still doing fine – everything else is closed – and going out for lunch is rare for most. Most of us work absolutely mangled when we are sick when we can work from home – there isn’t exactly a lot of us to cover the work – but now we take sick days way more often and the work and our team suffers. Parking is a nightmare and expensive. The commute is way worse now than pre pandemic and people come in frustrated, cold, angry, and miserable, which affects their work. There is no evidence our work suffers when we work from home, in reality considering the amount of work we have and what we’ve been able to deliver during the pandemic and since, this shouldn’t even be a question.

Edit cuz i got busy: these non-evidence based policies cost the tax payers more and make everyone unhappy and perhaps even makes the work less efficient. No one is saying we never go into the office, but we certainly don’t need to regress to a 2005 model like some seemingly think is how it must be.

This is in response to their stupid back to office mandates.. so I hope it goes through but our government is bent on doing the fucking opposite.

> [All executives in the core public service are now required](https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/will-federal-departments-have-enough-space-for-public-servants-in-office-4-days-a-week/) to work on-site five days per week. As of July 6, all other federal employees will need to be in the office for a minimum of four days a week, unless told by departments.

I hope everyone that  is in supportive. This has actually signed the petition.

All my coworker drive 30 mins to the office so they can take their teams meeting at their cubicle.

“Work”. How many have been caught “working” and also having another full time job. 😂

This isn’t about if they are as competent at home as the office. This office mandate exists to size down the bloated federal workforce, which is something we need to do. This petition is a pointless gesture by office workers who should have never been hired in the first place.

Katy Perry’s boyfriend has done a lot of damage to our nation, and Carney is trying to undo it.

Offer them a 10% wage reduction and let them
Work from home 4 days a week…. Everyone wins, after Covid my company listed remote jobs with 10% less pay and allowed employees who were working remote to apply for one or return to the office… I have been WFH since and easily saving more monthly thank 10% reduction that is still taxed haha 

Lazy people wanting to „work from home“ get to work.

My neighbor has a f/t govt job where she works from home. She also has a f/t private sector job where she goes to the office. She just checks and responds to emails for her govt job while she is at the office for her in-person job. And she collects 2 full-time pay cheques.

She is opposed to any requirement where she would have to go back to the office for her govt job…. Go figure?

We should all be working home when possible. The money everyone saves is insane. The worker saves money, the employer saves money. It’s better for the environment, better for the economy. Instead of my family spending 5k on GO Train fairs we can spend it on groceries, house hold items and other things helping businesses.

It’s been proven time and time again that working from home has major consequences.

Being separated from everyone does slow the spread of illness. However, it does weaken our immune system AND can lead to mental illness as people aren’t able to disconnect and get out of the house.

When it comes to overtime, it’s also been shown that employees are much more careless because they are in a more relaxed environment. They also aren’t as productive. As such, the overtime they keep talking about is needed to match the same performance they would otherwise hit in the office.

As for commute times and people not arriving on time. Why the heck are trying to change work arrangements for people who aren’t punctual. If you know you need to be at work for 9 and it takes you an hour on a good day – plan accordingly. The cost of going to work? That’s not your employers responsibility.