Civil Service - Post Lockdown - Blended Working?

I think 3 days policy will be eventually across the civil service.

Absolute bull, you've stated that I "appear to be happy for others to be forced to do that", I never stated nor implied that at all. They are your words not mine. I believe fair play to anyone that has reasonable working hours. The benchmarking etc. that occurred in the early 2000's only went one way - up, this should of been fixed permanently not a sticking plaster that then gets "rectified". Additionally there are practices within the public sector to prevent private professionals moving into the sector - any person applying for a public sector job from the private sector can only start on the lowest increment for that level yet public sector employees can start on higher increment levels within that level.

This is protectionism and will only ensure that the pool of employees in the public sector becomes stale. My own sibling who is a lecturer has said that he sees this already happening in our colleges.

we havent received any update from them or even from my own employer regarding what is happening. Im in education public sector - have forsa sent a communication to any sector?

we already communicate by email and chat when we are in the office - and have online meetings are out desks. We are in the weird in between phase I suppose but I work in a large open plan collaborative space with no offices.

The point is can overlap - not all overlap yet the increment level is kept - its protectionism.

Ogcio don't want people bringing laptops to work from what I've heard.

The risk of one being left on a bus is too high so they need to sort out office workstations again.

Our place are offering 90% maximum working from home which works out at once every fortnight in the office. The only inflexibility is you wont get to chose which day this is. I imagine the preference for most people would be Mondays or Fridays. On another positive if we need to come in for a week for training this will cover us for ~2 months working from home.

Some may be granted 100% WFH depending on circumstances and operational needs. There is 1 person out of 150 who wants to be in the office full-time and they will need to be accommodated.

WFH has been such a success we are hiring an additional 50 people which means more internal promotions at EO & HEO level.

That's great to hear. What department are you with?

JFC. Are you for real?

What "unmotivated staff" would these be? What "disruptive and litigious culture" are you talking about? Can you point to any recent reports of court cases involving public servants suing their employers for (presumably) health and safety breaches at home? And how do those case numbers stack up against private sector employees doing the same?

Civil and public servants have been WFH for two years now. Productivity hasn't dropped! It's actually increased, in many cases. Your financial affairs are already being accessed in someone's house, because bank, insurance, financial advisors and tax consultant staff have all also been WFH these past two years.

Oh - and we've all received training on GDPR and data protection, with a focus on WFH.

The WFH thread has thrashed these issues out at length. The poster might even find a kindred spirit that they can PM their brainfarts to.

I tied it down to the leg of my desk with some twine and some cable ties. Ain't nobody going to run away with my router! 🙄

As others have said, if this is your concern, go make your own thread. We've been WFH from two years. So has everyone else. It's not going away.

I'm hoping not. I mean - we've all been doing this for two years? I'm aware of plans/negotiations taking place as early as last summer on what the civil/public service WFH scheme would look like. It's surely time for DPER to just go "Right, get your applications in if you want to continue WFH - here are the blended working options." Ultimately, it's going to come down to POs/Heads of sections as to what will be possible in their particular areas, so hopefully the options are more than "No WFH but you have flexi. Or one day a week at home, but no flexi." That'd be a missed opportunity.