During the Covid lockdowns, many workers, particularly in the public sectors (federal employees, civil servants, town hall staff etc) got to 'work from home' .......
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.... now that life has returned to 'the new normal' .... those workers haven't.
Most of these public sector workers have simply refused (or rather their unions have), by raising concerns about their health if they return to the office, even though most people are now unmasked and apart from medical facilities, everyone now mixes freely again. In other words, weak employers are being held to ransom .... while we tax payers continue pay for inadequate services from these pampered employees (lets not forget that they also still get final salary and index linked pensions, when they are gone from the private sectors).
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So in what is a warning to the UK, its been found that in some US federal government agencies as many as a quarter of the employees didn't log on to the office suite which includes their email accounts, even once, in the first 10 months of working from home. They simply cashed their pay cheques, and apparently they just didn’t do anything else ..... and no one said anything, or possibly didn't even notice.
The Chief of Staff for Health and Human Services (HHS) during the last year of the Trump administration, Brian Harrison, commissioned a report on daily employee activity at HHS, just before he left office after Trump lost, which confirmed these findings. Just like the UK, many federal agencies staff still have not returned to work, unlike the rest of America or UK.
Assuming the HHS productivity figures are similar across all the federal workforce, it would mean that more than 500,000 federal employees in the US simply pocketed their pay cheques doing no work. In the UK we have the same failure of civil and public servants to come back to work, and almost certainly the same non productive staff members issues.
Now in the US, there are already those pointing out that, setting the audit as just one check of their emails in 10 months was a very low bar, and are now calling for a full audit of each employees IT activity on the official federal office suite while they have been at home ... and to cull all those posts that are now demonstrably dead wood, and therefore should be made redundant.
I would suggest that a similar exercise in the UK would expose a similar amount of workers who could be dispensed with .....
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