Civil Service - Post Lockdown - Blended Working?

How wud you rate them for promotions in a few years? Is it better to say I worked in DPER or D Finance? Because DPER was born out of D Finance I always view it as lesser than D Finance…

Some departments have competitions internally more than others though yeah?

I'm not sure about fully internal comps, but PER is still in the group of Depts for AP and PO higher scale comps (with Finance and Toiseach - and possibly DFA?, and run internally among the group).

COVID is very unlikely to have any impact on wfh policies or general guidance.

Yes I thought that some people on this thread were saying that Revenue were offering one of the best blended working policies...with some sections only asking staff to attend as little as once a month or once a fortnight?

It's still annoying that staff in some Departments are allowed to work up flexi time whilst WFH and others are not.

As far as I know anyone that is allowed to accrue flexi time while wfh is part of a trial and then a decision is to be made across the board on it. That's what our Union reps told us anyway.

Does anyone have the mobility map to hand? The gov.ie site won't load the map the last few days now. The areas are now all zones since I last looked at it. And can't work out which zone is which.

Many thanks.

Another week of commutes during weather warnings. Seems needless to me.

I had an in person meeting cancelled this morning because of the ice by someone who lives 20 mins away with plenty of public transport options but didn’t want to drive, thankfully I scheduled other meetings today so my commute to the office and train ticket isn’t completely wasted. It’s not even bad some people take these helpful warnings and act like it’s the end of the world

it involved actually physical files maps etc that had to be gone through etc so only in person in this case

RTE traffic news had reports of two separate crashes delaying traffic on the M50 this morning, so I'm not sure everyone would agree that the roads were perfectly fine. Not everyone drives either, so patches of ice can be particularly dangerous for those cycling or walking, even to the bus stop.

This week is a great week to make use of WFH infrastructure.

Yes, there are always crashes, but I don't recall hearing about two separate crashes delaying traffic at the same time recently. And yes, poor driving is a major root cause, but that's not going to change any time soon.

I certainly wouldn't be arguing with any staff who chose to WFH for the next few days.

I'm against forced WFH or expected WFH, bit of a different story completely.

It's nothing to do with public sector. I know of two private sector family members who have decided to WFH today given the conditions (one cyclist, one bus user).

I don't see what the problem is. Are we supposed to be showing some macho tough guy image to impress someone? It's not hard to slip while walking and break an ankle or slip off a bike and break a collarbone on a patch of ice. There was definitely ice patches out this morning between 8-9am.

With all the WFH infrastructure in place, it makes perfect sense for people to minimise risk.