News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The civil service's biggest union is encouraging its members to make formal complaints to managers about the push for them to return to their offices at least 60% of the time.
Civil servants at the ONS, Britain’s official statistics body, have threatened to go on strike after being asked to work in the office for two days a week.
Guardian staff are in open revolt after being told they have to spend at least three days a week in the office from Jan 1st, with some complaining it will mean spending less time with their pets.
According to a new report from the Resolution Foundation, working from home has benefited the local economies of the most affluent parts of the country and harmed the most deprived.
Entrepreneur John Caudwell has condemned the pandemic-induced WFH culture as "a catastrophe for the British economy" and an "epidemic of inefficiency" as he demands that civil servants get back to their desks.
Luke Johnson has written a terrific comment piece for the Mail lambasting the unwillingness of civil servants to come into work just as all hands are needed at the pump to deal with the coming recession.
An undercover investigation by the Times has revealed that 6,200 staff at DVLA were sent home during the first lockdown and 3,400 were not asked to do any work at all. No wonder people are waiting months for driving tests.
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