Civil servants to strike over ‘Victorian’ demand to spend three days in the office

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1. WfH has really rotted people’s brains. Self entitlement off the scale.

2. Poor guys, I don’t even know how they’d manage 3 days

3. 3 working days a week ? Tbh, wfh means no work. What a waste of taxpayer money.

4. The demand is out of touch and fucking stupid, but equally stupid is resorting to such hyperbolic language when half the country, also stupidly, sees WFH as a cop out.

5. Once again we go against the worker with the comments here.

   When most of us are all workers 🤦🏾‍♂️

6. Remember during the pandemic when we all bent over backwards to accommodate our employers by taking zoom calls from our kitchen tables etc? Now those bastards repay us by demanding we return to the office. I say we start the revolution now!

7. I think it’d be more accurate to refer to it as an _Elizabethan_ demand, no?

8. Two weeks to flatten the curve.

9. I can see it from both sides.

   A genuine worker can be more productive and is much happier in there work life balance if working from home. (My partner is like this)

   There will ofcourse be the workers that don’t like working, take the piss when working from home and be difficult to get hold of. (We all have colleagues like this) These are the ones that give the work from home people a bad name. The higher ups think all WFH people are like this though.

10. I work for a company within the ‘public sector’ where people in some departments have the opportunity and ability to WFH. There are some workers who absolutely have to be present at the workface to do their job. There are some who absolutely could do their job in their pyjamas in bed with a laptop and a headset.

    The middle ground is always the problem…
    ‘Can’t come in today I’m “WFH”‘

11. Public sector need to get back in the office. I know some who WFH & they just toss it off, waiting for the big pension to kick in.

12. Why 3 days and not 2.5 or 4…..? Arbitrary limit based on no data or understanding of a role. Some jobs have to be in person, others dont, but all for 3 days?

    Also, this will create a cottage industry in tracking attendance which in itself is futile

13. I have no idea why workers here are so opposed to WFH. It is actually better for productivity because there isn’t the office distraction of unnecessary conversations that have nothing to do with the work. Some of just want to get our head down and finish our tasks on time. Instead we have to listen to an annoying colleague that has too much spare time on their hands tell us about what they watched on TV. Then there is the time wasted on food and coffee queues, not to mention that fact that you can’t just take your laptop into the bog if nature calls.

    Beyond all of this, commuting is stressful and time consuming. Either you spend too much on travel (but you have to get up earlier and have little to no spare time) or you spend too much on accommodation near the office that is too expensive and uncomfortable.

    I don’t understand how people say WFH = people not doing their work. If that was the case, couldn’t managers just sack people for not delivering?

    WFH is a victory for everyone. More sleep, less fatigue, more money saved, more productivity and better mental wellbeing.

14. In many roles this makes them less competitive than the private sector when it comes to work life balance. Not sure the public sector will be willing to raise salaries to compensate for the brain drain they will have on specialist roles.

15. Seeing as it’s cheaper for these people to work at home, there must be stats to prove they’re more productive in an office! If the staff were as productive or more productive, I’m sure employers would be happy with the savings on office space and energy costs.

    It seems people do indeed work more [productively](https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/londons-productivity-decline-linked-to-remote-work-reports-ons/) in an office.

16. One might think the Telegraph is ready by retired people droning on about how “in my day”…

17. The entitlement amoung some public sector workers amazes me sometimes.

    You were working 5 days before Covid and now you want to strike ?

    We all know you there is a huge issue with slacking and lazy people there who are impossible to sack. Many will be taking the utter piss working from home let’s be honest.

18. I wish I can work from home. I don’t have to get ready, drive all the way to work, and then have to drive all the way back again. More people working from home will mean less cars on the road. Not sure why people are complaining about it.

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