News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Years on from Covid, Civil Service 'TWaTs' (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday office workers) are harming productivity and leaving desks empty. The Telegraph's Tom Haynes explains how this remote work trend affects us all.
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.
U.K. civil servants have won the right to work remotely abroad for two weeks a year, sparking concerns about productivity 'from the beach'.
In the Telegraph, charity chief Sir Peter Lampl highlights a serious crisis in U.K. school attendance, with factors including parents working from home and the impact of lockdowns.
Civil servants face a crackdown on working from home as ministers plan the end of the 'Tuesday to Thursday' office culture in Whitehall that is blamed for plummeting productivity since the pandemic.
A key factor driving the world to lockdown in 2020 was remote-working technology like Zoom that, for the first time, made extended periods of isolation economically viable, argues Prof Jay Bhattacharya.
Mask wearing, social distancing and working from home could be introduced by ministers to 'ease pressures on the NHS', as some experts call for Britons to start adopting Covid-era measures.
The Editors of the BMJ and the Health Service Journal have said the "pandemic is far from over" and an immediate return to work from home, masks, gathering limits and free testing is needed to save the "dying" NHS.
The next few days of high temperatures “may be a moment to work from home” a senior Government minister has said as unions grabbed the opportunity to demand the right to stop working if temperatures hit, er, 25°C.
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