The #1 thing we can do to reduce pollution, wear and tear on infrastructure, and save employees money is work from home.
But returning to the office is more important?
This is gross mismanagement, unnecessary RTO needs to be banned
Ford is literally begging for this to “revitalize” downtowns.
Like, maybe, we should readjust what downtown looks like, so we can avoid this wear and tear, save the environment, and save people (and cities) money?
Maybe we should be making the downtowns more livable places so there are people there at all hours of the day to support whatever services are there?
I agree. They don’t even have to convert all office spaces to apartments. If fact, they should encourage people to live in the same building or nearby to the office IF the job actually needs to be at the office.
In Ottawa on an unrelated visit Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford reiterated his call for federal public servants in the capital to get back to the office and breathe life back into the city’s often deserted downtown.
That must be one of the worst arguments. How about the betterment of people?
How about the betterment of people?
His interest is most likely in the betterment of the pocketbooks of chums of his who have relevant real estate.
Or, and hear me out, the downtown drug dealers were feeling the pinch and called in a favour from their old pal Drug Fraud.
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FedGov! Come for the low wages, stay for the provincials dictating work policy.
The Dead Sea Effect is gonna be awesome, despite the high percentage of newcomers working in gov.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The federal government will expect public servants back in the office three days a week beginning later this year.
A federal government source who is not authorized to speak publicly about the matter confirmed to Radio-Canada what the French-language newspaper Le Droit first reported Monday.
It’s a major alteration to the twice-a-week hybrid model that prompted some 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members to walk off the job last year in what their union called a “watershed moment” for workers’ rights.
But Minister of Public Services and Procurement Jean-Yves Duclos said individual ministries would maintain the final word on how employees return to the office.
In downtown Ottawa, public servant Tannis Labelle wasn’t keen on the idea of returning to the office for a third day.
The 2024 federal budget set a 10-year target for cutting Public Services and Procurement Canada’s office portfolio in half.
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