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.
If a job can be done remotely, that means office spaces are just prison cells. Let this archaic capitalist enslavement end already.
I have a core memory from a a course I was doing as COVID lockdowns were kicking off.
Student: “How will I know my employees are working from home?”
Prof: “How do you know they’re working from the office?”
This.
Let output be the measure of productivity. If the work is getting done, who cares where it’s being done.
Hint: managers who can’t walk around micromanaging people.
I remember CEOs going on national TV to whine about employees working from their couch. They don’t give a shit if we’re working. They’re paying to have control over us.
Exactly. When i used to work an office job, I swear I’d be doing 1 hour worth of work and the rest of the day I’d be miserably looking at the time and waiting for the day to end so I could go meet my friends to get drunk or drugged up. It was a vicious depressing cycle.
Let it be outsourced already as well, so we can lower interest rates and feed the housing that makes up the real economy of Canada.