Three Days a Week?

[Tecumsehsbones]

I concur, but if the same amount of work isn’t being accomplished, and the federal public servants numbers have increased in the last decade by about 40%, with most of that during the COVID years, and consultants have also taken over a chunk of their workload in order to have worse outcomes for those paying for this, maybe something different like going to work eight hours a day even three days/week might be something to try?

Why? Is it hard to dick around and waste time in the office?

I'm asking seriously. I've always had private offices with doors since the AF days.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Why? Is it hard to dick around and waste time in the office?

I'm asking seriously. I've always had private offices with doors since the AF days.

Personally, and this is just my experience because I also happen to have a job where I could do much of what I do from home if I chose to do so…If I’m at the office, without the demands of home overlapping, I get much more done in a shorter amount of time…& what I could accomplish in the office in 8 hours might take me 12 or more at home…with not boundaries on my start/stop time from those that think my time is unlimited & my “cell# for emergencies” becomes my Line#2.

 

[Taxslave2]

Federal employees' unions say most civil servants oppose the planned reduction in telework and report struggles with transportation and work-family balance. Many also say they're more productive when they work from home.

If going to the office to work is so difficult, then quit your cushy job and go get a real job, where one is expected to show up on time, ready for work.

 

[Taxslave2]

Remember the good old days when remote work meant flying into a camp in butfuk nowhere? And staying for 21 days?

 

[Ron in Regina]

Remember the good old days when remote work meant flying into a camp in butfuk nowhere? And staying for 21 days?

That was only a decade to go for me. I hear you.

 

[Taxslave2]

That was only a decade to go for me. I hear you.

I spent last week working in Tofino. Does that count? Hey, does turdOWE count surfing in Tofino as work? And I spent last winter working in Vancouver on the Broadway subway. That is more remote from the real world than I care to get. That one at least was a good shift. 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off.