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CIVIL SERVANTS WORK FROM HOME
The advice of government
on civil servants working from home
Early September
80% should come in once a week or more by October
Late September
reverted
to the previous advice because the COVID-19 cases up
March
work from home if possible
Main target
to maintain "
productivity
" and "
cohesiveness
" within the Civil Service as the pandemic continues.
The government has "
wasted
" three weeks of Whitehall bosses' time by twice changing its advice about this topic.
The general secretary of FDA, Dave Penman, said ministers had got themselves into a "
tizzy
" and had suggested staff were "
lazy
".
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FDA
is a trade union for UK senior and middle management civil servants and public service professionals.
Why civil servants should
back into the office
Result
the government encouraged companies to bring more people back into the office where it was made safe
Controversy
Downing Street argued that civil servants should
set an example to the private sector
and return to their usual workplace in greater numbers.
Cause
a lack of commuters
resulted in the city-centre businesses such as shops and cafés are
slow
over the summer
From
civil servants' perspectives
At the start of coronavirus crisis
permanent secretaries had transformed their staff from being 95%
office-based
to 95%
home-based
in three weeks
The bureaucratic response
required civil servants to return to offices for work
Ministers got themselves into a
tizzy
and ended up with this target of 80%
They committed to a time frame but they didn't think it through
The government had civil servants being called
lazy
The Cabinet Office, the Whitehall department which supports the prime minister, declined to comment on Mr Penman's remarks.
official guidance states that civil servants in "essential" services should "continue to go into work where necessary in a COVID-secure workplace".
Mr Penman, whose FDA union represents senior civil servants
accused the government of putting "
political pressure
" on itself by briefing the media that civil servants were "
reluctant
" to return to offices and then having to be seen to rectify it