NSSO same, 4 days work from home and can build up flexi anywhere
Sounds like Revenue allow great flexibility for their staff.....a pity more don't!
I'm also in Revenue and work 4 days from home and can build up flexi when WFH. There is also an option to book a desk in any of the Revenue offices in the country which is very handy as I'm going to a concert in Dublin next month on a Monday and rather than taking an AL day I've booked a desk in one of the Dublin offices to work in day of the concert and day after so don't have to take any leave now.
I’m in Revenue and we can work remotely 4 days a week & work up flexi when remote working….
We got to chose which day we wanted to work in the office & we book our desk for that day, very accommodating if we ever want to swap our anchor day for any reason.
Please bear in mind that working in Revenue is not for everyone but I love it. There’s a serious amount of training involved at the beginning.
Revenue and NSSO allowing 4 days WFH per week is what I'm hearing. Can anyone confirm this? Sign me up!
One Department planning to up it to 3 days in office. Going to lose a lot of staff on mobility and will not be able to compete on the job market front. Merrion Square is one of the most expensive places and time consuming commutes.
Do they not want to retain experienced staff and have an inclusive and diverse work place?
Backwards they're going.
Just a minor point on your post. There is no official entitlement to a morning or afternoon break in the civil service. The lunch break legally covers your rest period.
I used to think we were officially entitled to our 15min/20min morning break, until my AP corrected me!
Ah, yeah, the "We got your 7-hour day back!" switcheroo from the unions! 🤣
The 9:12 came about with the move from 7:27 to 7:00 hours. :) Or in old money, 6:57 to 7:00 hours.
Yup. We have internal customers, we don't have an on-call allowance. We provide the service during the core hours, 9:12 to 17:30 (9 effing 12, how did that come about!), 17:15 on Fridays. We will absolutely still provide service before and after those times if people are around, or when requested in advance, but they're the only "guaranteed" hours.
And my employer lets people accrue flexi when WFH. The work gets done.
Many places still operate flexible working hours, it's just the accrual of hours for flexi leave that is not allowed when working from home.
But the starting time, finish time, core bands etc, are all still in place.
That's not too bad then. I have never been in an office that operated on the 9.15 - 17.30 day, thankfully.
From experience with people I know, there’s still a lot of flexibility allowed with managers. It seems most places aren’t enforcing the 9:15-17:30 day (no one I know who works in the public service does this at home). If they have to do something that requires extra time one day, they work less time another day
They're all quiet happy with the arrangements, but yes none of them can accrue flexi time at home
Seems unreasonable not to allow Flexi when you WFH. What if something comes up that needs a response any you've completed your day.
Surely even limiting it to working an hour or two per day when WFH gives flexibility.
There's something happening with that, but don't hold your breath!
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Plenty of suspect posts. Some people have to have an opinion on everything. A daily post limit would improve this place no end. There's a particular poster I have in mind who slabbers on any forum I happen to visit. Altho they're on ignore, they post so frequently that it ruins the experience.
Again your lack of knowledge is exposed.
In the civil service the working week is 35 hours net, i.e. not including lunch.
Lunch break is a mandatory 30 mins, but can be up to 2 hrs, and is unpaid. One must clock out. If one does not clock out, 2 hours will be deducted.
Officially breaks are 15 mins morning and afternoon and are paid, one does not clock out. However it's been 20 years since I've done anything other than make a cuppa and bring it back to my desk.
It's completely crap how there's still that inconsistency between depts. My wife and I both have 3 days a week WFH, I can work up hours at home but she can't.
I can work up 11:30 with ease (same as I did almost every flexi period when fulltime in the office, often losing a few hours, i.e. working for FREE 🤔 ) but even working up one flexi day for her is quite difficult, and she's much less annual leave than me to begin with so flexi days are valuable.
If it's still a 'trial' then there should be an end date set for that trial, and criteria for assessing the success or otherwise of that trial. As far as I know, no depts/offices which allow flexi hours accumulation while WFH are looking to remove it, it's working fine, so why not allow everyone to have it?
Total silence from Forsa on this issue
Nope, only in office
FHERIS also still have people at the Marlborough street Department of education buildings
2 days in office at least
thanks and can they work up flexi time at home?
My partner works in DFHERIS in Tullamore , not sure where the other locations are. It’s officially 2 days in office , 3 from home.
Does anyone work in DFHERIS? Are they only based in Stephens Green and what is the blended work pattern? Thanks
Not to mention they offered redundancy not too long ago and it didn’t save them the money they thought it would
The public service in the nother has huge numbers, and won't be reducing them any time soon, for very obvious reasons.
I wouldnt say so. Its just cost cutting by getting rid of office space and maintenance costs/heating etc.
They're probably also planning to cut their numbers by 40%.
Civil Service in the North actively planning for the future. While down south we csnt even get consistent flexi rules across Depts. Bit of a joke really.
Yes, they are of course entitled to do so. And employees are entitled to go "Your reasons for having everyone in the office (if you even present any, unlike, say, Elon Musk) are bullshit." And some will walk, and some won't.
Why don't you transfer on mobility to NCSE or OPW in Trim? You'll have a five minute commute on your non-WFH days.
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