The federal government says there may not be enough room in some offices for all workers as the public service prepares to return to the office four days a week starting July 6.
Civil servants currently only have to come into the office three days a week — a rule that was put in place in September 2024 as government employees were for the most part working remotely in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this month, the federal government announced it expects employees who haven’t done so already to return to in-office work for a minimum of four days a week starting this July. Government executives will be expected in the office five days.
In a French-language statement emailed this week to Radio-Canada, the Treasury Board of Canada said that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) will work closely with organizations to ensure “adequate office space” is available for staff.
This is the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard.
People want to punish federal workers because they think they’re lazy, and they have to go to the office, so we’re doing this fucking dumb-ass half baked thing.
I think its the housing bubble they actually care about, government workers are the only employment still growing in Canada, if they can work from anywhere who will bid up asset values?
As a metric that’s going to fuck up peoples idea of how we’re doing with our invested age pyramid.
Not here. They’re laying off people for austerity. This is the most blue orange government ever.