From the hullabaloo, you’d think the world ended when Treasury Board President Mona Fortier announced on Thursday that by the end of March, many bureaucrats will have to spend two or three days a week in the offices they successfully occupied prior to COVID.
So we really have to wonder how anyone could take seriously the whining of public service unions about their well-paid workers — most in secure jobs — having to return to the office on a part-time basis. With three months’ notice, no less.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Over at the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, meanwhile, president Jennifer Carr pronounced Fortier’s announcement “punitive.” But this isn’t a case of misery loves company. We don’t think public servants should suffer just because others do. We think they should be in their offices — part-time, remember — because things aren’t succeeding all that well with work from home.Article content
Sure, many public servants have already returned to their “public-facing” jobs, but somewhere in the background work schedules, resources and planning have been consistently botched over the last three years.
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