- 20 Nov 2022 11:21
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Attendance records? Insulting & demeaning.
Free energy for your house if you work for the government.
I have historically supported pro-welfare policies in countries like the US where I recognise that inequality is too big, there is no free healthcare and university bills are so high.
I have also historically supported pro-business policies in countries like Greece, France and Italy where the economy has been stagnating due to bloatedness, large deficits and low returns on investment.
The UK had managed to strike a balance between these 2 worlds that was workable but has now crossed the threshold into a high-tax low growth bloated economy with very bad infrastructure & anemic R&D.
The new Budget has condemned us all to stagnation until 2027 at the best case scenario, when we hope to return to our 2007 levels.
We were supposed to achieve that in 2017, then it was revised to 2022 and now it has been revised to 2027, who knows we may never reach our 2007 income levels again.
The good news is that we will effectively go back to the EU as soon as possibly next year. The Tories are openly discussing adopting the Swiss model of pretense. Officially out, but effectively in through a method of copy/pasting laws which we are already doing anyway.
Telegraph wrote:A union study also identified the drawbacks of work outside the office, including social isolation and an 'always-on culture'
Civil servants should have their heating paid for by the Government so they can continue working from home, union bosses have said.
The FDA union, which represents more than 22,000 senior officials, has produced its largest study to date of officials’ views on remote and hybrid working.
It is scathing of ministers’ “blinkered rush to get civil servants back to offices”, which has left officials feeling “patronised and infantilised”.
The report found that some civil servants were left “feeling like they're back at school” because their departments had conducted or threatened “school registers” of who was in attendance.
At the top of its four recommendations is that “departments and government give all employees who work remotely or in a hybrid model an allowance to help towards increased energy and utility costs, as well as the necessary equipment for remote working to be safe and effective”.
It is the latest in a Whitehall war of words since Covid rules were scrapped, with Jacob Rees-Mogg, when he was Government efficiency minister, leaving notes on desks and enforcing strict quotas.
Surveys by the FDA found 74 per cent of members did most of their work from home, while 87 per cent preferred to work at least three of five days a week from home going forward.
However, the study identified the clear drawbacks of working from home, including that it creates social isolation and an “always-on culture” that strips the “right to disconnect”.
As a result, the Government should consider a “wide-reaching hybrid-work strategy” similar to that in Ireland, the report says, with “remote-working hubs” across the country to allow officials to see their colleagues when they wish and enhance the levelling up agenda.
The FDA commissioned Public First polling in July, which has only just been released. It found the public are “largely apathetic” about the issue of work from home, with 78 per cent in the so-called ‘Red Wall’ agreeing there are larger issues for the Government to deal with.
One official surveyed lashed out at the “disastrous” impact of his Government department’s mandate for employees to spend 40 per cent of the week in office, claiming it had led to “a ridiculous school register exercise” and receiving “vague and implicit threats”.
The report concluded the benefits of hybrid work outweighed the negatives and that civil servants are “almost unanimous” in their “profound dislike” of back-to-office drives and it risks undoing strides in equality.
It concluded: “This is incredibly damaging, and this attitude cannot be allowed to continue, otherwise talented individuals will leave the civil service.”
Attendance records? Insulting & demeaning.
Free energy for your house if you work for the government.
I have historically supported pro-welfare policies in countries like the US where I recognise that inequality is too big, there is no free healthcare and university bills are so high.
I have also historically supported pro-business policies in countries like Greece, France and Italy where the economy has been stagnating due to bloatedness, large deficits and low returns on investment.
The UK had managed to strike a balance between these 2 worlds that was workable but has now crossed the threshold into a high-tax low growth bloated economy with very bad infrastructure & anemic R&D.
The new Budget has condemned us all to stagnation until 2027 at the best case scenario, when we hope to return to our 2007 levels.
We were supposed to achieve that in 2017, then it was revised to 2022 and now it has been revised to 2027, who knows we may never reach our 2007 income levels again.
The good news is that we will effectively go back to the EU as soon as possibly next year. The Tories are openly discussing adopting the Swiss model of pretense. Officially out, but effectively in through a method of copy/pasting laws which we are already doing anyway.
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