Civil Service - Post Lockdown - Blended Working?

We've lost four out of fifteen already to the private sector, to full time remote working, because they didn't want to come back to Dublin and 100% remote working is not on the table. These were not junior staff, and believe me, we're already feeling their loss badly.

You seem like a sufferer of Stockholm syndrome.

Instead of asking why everywhere isn't more like your place, ask why your place isn't more like everywhere else. You are bemoaning the fact that you have to work 9 to half 5, if you're lucky. Possibly longer. And you appear to be happy for others to be forced to do that, without being adequately rewarded, instead of rejoicing in the fact that the more this becomes the norm, the more chance you have of getting those hours yourself.

And besides, your post doesn't negate the point being made by the previous poster. People had their contracts and terms of employment, including their wages, hours and conditions, unilaterally changed for the worst. It is an absolute farce that it has taken so long for this to be rectified. If you think it's such a handy number, then there's no shortage of comps up on public jobs to get your teeth into.

So if you already knew, why are you bringing it up now? Over a decade later for most, and in some cases, nearly two decades?

be good if the usual suspects who know nothing about the public sector other than what they heard their uncle spout while drunk in the 80s could leave us to discuss the thread topic as pertains to our actual employment

What it shows is your resistance to accept that the civil service has changed massively over the last 20 years.

Probably best to let the civil servants discuss issues that are relevant and actually apply in 2022.

They are also going to have to look at how these patterns will affect worksharers - I can see that getting complicated.

I know I've been asked by a worksharer doing a split week 3/2 if it meant they would be back in "full time" the way they were pre-covid or will it be pro-rata, somehow.

Have you been told to go back full time?

We were told today that we don't have to go back in immediately, and that any return will be staggered and cautious.

Find out who the Lead Worker Representative for your Dept is, and ask them what way your Dept is leaning. Some depts are much more resistant to the idea of blended working than others.

I think that this was the plan for a staged return to work before Omicron hit us in a wave, so it should probably be viewed as a mere resumption of that approach.

I think that various departments will adopt various approaches between then and the agreement/implementation of blended working, and while you will be able to read to an extent the attitude of each department's management board in the interim period, the policy will at that stage lead to a much more uniform approach.

if not, the departments/units/teams (depending on where discretion sits in each dept) that restrict WFH are going to start bleeding staff very quickly indeed- with mobility now well established and certain skillsets in particular both in high demand and well suited to a wfh approach, managers will simply see this as a bargaining tool to snap up the people they want.

long before the WRC hammers home the right to work from home on a reasonable basis (and if you haven't run into trouble in the past 2 years, that's a slam-dunk case) the departments that drag their feet on this will be feeling the pain- now i dont think like an ASEC thinks but for the life of me if that's not obvious to anyone they must have a serious set of blinkers on them

I wonder how they will manage to screw this up all the same- can't believe that all departments will allow themselves to be held back by the few noteworthy foot-draggers (like happened when no consensus could be found last year on a policy)

All of the above can be reasoned without reference to luddite public sector workers, management who hate their teams, lazy workers getting away with murder. it's very simple to pick a path through the actual issues that will come into play without sounding like a crank.