Why the government is pushing for more in-office work | Power Play with Mike Le Couteur 

Shell game.

More like asset’s, like cattle that can be bought, sold and used to borrow money against.

So true.

Literally takes a month for government office clerks to approve check boxes on forms. it's not even close to a nurses's productivity.

Yeah, nurses stand while they visit with each other for 90% of their shifts while office workers sit and play video games for 90% of their shifts. (Say NOTHING if you haven't spent at least a week in hospital. Your denial of facts doesn't change them.)

@@BoreasCastel that's so cute that you think that. I have in fact worked in hospitals. I grew up in a health care family and have literally spent my whole life around doctors and nurses. You clearly don't know what nurses do.

💯 plus there's a lot of "observation" which I'm willing to bet are from the old-school management types that are not willing to learn how to manage a remote team.

Transit is actually not dependable and is downright dangerous in Toronto. This lady shows her privilege by ignoring the horrors of commuting, especially in winter. This is not the 20th century. How backward can you get?

​@@Annapurna818LOL. An employer requiring an employee to show up is not "privilege". Although thinking it's privilege shows some... err... privilege.

Nothing the public service does is efficient , further more we have about 30% more public service than we need!

Why isn't she in the office instead of on tv? I would lose 2 hours a day to commute to work, plus the cost and wear and tear on your car and the cost of parking, getting new business attire, babysitter, all that carbon from cars, increased traffic,etc, and they expect you in the office with no change in pay???. Productivity from me would certainly drop because I would do the bare minimum and would never stay after work like I do now, because I'm not in a rush to get the kids picked up.I will never go back in the office!!! Lots of remote work that pays better than government work anyways. This is backwards thinking by the government overlords who mostly work from home themselves. So divisive!

@@dashriprock3737 Then you get a job where your employer is ok with you working from home. The federal government is not.

Don't like it.....then quit

no they want them to work 5 days a week

@@junzhang1248 if you don’t to work then quit stop free loading on my dollars

Buy a thermos and pack your lunch.

You can't be paid more, have a more comfortable job, and have almost no risk of being let go. Public sector office work is a joke.

Most departments have failed to meet their own benchmarks.

@@sophiecawlishaw5245 The OP quoted the Stanford Study on productivity -- where's YOUR citation for "MOST departments have failed to meet their own benchmarks."

What productivity? It was always a very low bar to begin with.

@@sophiecawlishaw5245 Untrue, lets see your facts ?

It’s always the workers that know what’s best for the business… and it just happened to coincide with making their life easier.. Pretty soon they’re gonna want a raise because working at home is so difficult..

One of the KPI's is to show up in the office. That was easy.

!!!

Hope it didn't take too long to come up with that one.

If they did that It would save Billions of dollars.

Too much money to be made in a housing crisis can't fix that.

Working from home that’s a joke.

Diff. racket as McKinsey will make sure their contract lasts longer lol

Banks only hire part-time with few exceptions. Banks are also obsessed with degrees above all else.

@@Gregory-o6v they still should be able answer a phone though lol

100% slavery at its best

AMEN!!

Imagine having to work at the office 3 days a week..., the nerve. Wants versus needs. Less government, less interference.

​@@dmann4683: What difference does it make where they work, if we get the same service?

We aren't getting the service though! Have you ever called and spoke to a federal government worker? It's insane

@@matthewhunt1388: What is insane? Be specific: Wait times? Bad comms? ??? ... and what this has to do with where they work?

@@matthewhunt1388 Exactly.

What are your questions? I recently retired from CRA and may be able to help.

@@sktoh4469 Ha Ha Ha. I'm now retired from the government and still here to help. 🙂

This is the incompetency of the bureaucracy. They should have assigned teams work areas, perhaps somewhat reduced, but teams should be together. I ran into someone that is going back to office, and they can choose the location of the office, that just defeats the purpose. Managers should have demanded better structured for work spaces, but most are poor managers and don't get the working together concept.

FACTS ...

Thanks for the insight

Then go two days, locate two teams in said building and bam, you now have the building occupied 4 out of 5 days and you can now get rid of the unused building and save the taxpayers millions of dollars a year

What about the province and their failure to address housing?

@@VitaminsB1212 Could lead to overcrowding and assc. health issues lol

I own that desk as do all Canadians with tax based employment . It is not yours . Your attitude is a farce !

@@rdhudon7469 so you want them to work on where? You make no sense whatsoever.

100% this

Uhmm disteaxting perfect example why you shouldn't be working in Canada and why everyone should be at work 5 days a week

​@@ananagy2630Thank you.

IT folks like you are probably scared of humans cuz of lack of social skills. so you rather stay home and work😂

Do you make up words ? Do you mean distracting ? .....We need to raise the bar on expectations from self proclaimed professionals .

Another well known problem absolutely bad middle middle managers usually lackeys for even worse top mgmt. lol

The best cost-benefit analysis is a massive reduction in both; overall government and its workforce.

"Learning by observation" - if you work on a computer, what is there to observe?

It depends on your team. Maybe you have had a bad experience in a "Team" environment, many companies find it works well.

@@barbarastoll1978 It works well when you hire unskilled and unqualified candidates to do the job. Zero productivity with qualified and skilled workers.

The so-called team environment is a farce. Taxpayers' information is treated as so confidential no one dares share it with a fellow team member.

Because you want more inflation ? They already make over 30% more then their private sector counterparts . But more taxes to pay bloated wages and inflation is what hard working tax paying Canadians want.

Nah, they should stay home. I want clear roads on my way to work.

Then quit and find something better.

@@user-iw5mp5th6d Or they can move closer to their work . Except the world revolves around them and the private sector owes them because we could not survive without them. 😆

Steve Paco!

Commute complaints? Work in construction we are constantly moving site to site building homes and offices. Maybe construction workers should work from home as well?

Yes, punish them by getting them to do what everyone was doing before 2020. Really weird ask.

​@@tylerdurden8378welcome to 2024, we still don't have time travel so why are you trying to go back to 2020?

@@ccsmith793 Haha, yeah, as if going back before COVID would be such a bad thing. Point is, this isn't a punishment. It is standard operating procedure. COVID was a blip, not the norm.

Productivity hasn't been lost because there wasn't any to begin with. Referring to government employees as workers is a contradiction.

​@@tylerdurden8378COVID-19 was planned as a societal control experiment. It destroyed lives by affecting mental health with unnecessary lockdowns, particularly of public parks, recreational trails, and other facilities.

Buzz words of the govt.

So true. Team members can be located in different provinces.

Apparently, some are expected to work in offices in their local area so that they fulfil the in office mandate. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

If only the cons cared about anything but the rich.

🤣🤣🤣 Closer to the kitchen.

Clearly our culture towards women needs more work. No wonder women and children are still being abused and murdered by men! Please teach your sons better.

No one is in the office at the same time because they don’t actually have the same space like they used to. So you’re essentially just doing teams zoom calls from your cubicle instead of at home. So that’s even dumber.

Cause a parked car doesn't bring in carbon tax. This is a money grab

Don't worry, that day came with the lockdowns. That day will come again for different reasons and then everyone will be complaining they cannot go anywhere.

If you have a 1 hour commute that is 20 percent of your hours. Let's start talking at a 20% reduction in salary, and that is generous.

@@HondoTrailside I agree completely. If commuting costs are reduced so should pay be reduced. I see them "working from home" at Costco in Ottawa.

those that work from home should get paid less 😁

@@mtm101designs9 this is a pretty ridiculous take because they have to commute and still do the full hours anyway. You guys do realize they don’t get paid for commuting right? They have to pay for that out-of-pocket including parking fees. So why would they want to pay more to do the exact same job? Besides, that money doesn’t go to the taxpayer, but to the businesses located in downtown. So you’re not saving any meaningful money. I’d rather they spend that money on local shops.

Source?

100%. She’s making stuff up.

I've seen studies that said otherwise. I didn't bother to save it but it was done shortly after lockdowns ended and it was on mainstream sites.

Where are you getting you data on productivity?...That's what I thought.

It’s not special treatment when equivalent jobs in the private sector are also working from home

@@thezu9250 See how an employee in the private sector does more in one day than an employee in the government sector does in a week, I wouldn't call it as "equivalent jobs"

Some $50k a year clerical lackey "rules over the citizens?" Who knew doing Excel spreadsheets for paperclips resulted in such societal power!

Your right, it would be nice if they can bring back the 1970's office culture. Do you remember those days? What about the Bee Gee's?

No kidding. Hard to believe all the whining and complaining of having to be at the office 3 days per week.

And the public will have to find a third job to help pay for their increased taxes. Next they will complain that their home improvements and mortgage’s should be subsidized because they are working from home, if that is not already happening.

You're lucky....36 hours for me.

That is because Gen Z and millennials run things now. They have no clue about service.

Diff. racket as McKinsey will make sure their contract lasts longer lol

Stop bringing up the CRA like that’s all public employees do. You do realize that they monitor them right? That things wouldn’t be functioning if they weren’t working? You guys just sound bitter and uneducated about the realities of what they do. Why should they drive/bus to do the same thing in a cubicle that they could be doing at home?

Na. They rather have people's info at home and share it.

@@Dot-he2ke hahaha

My team is spread across the country. What is the point of me going in?

@@Sheek888 hahaha. Tough luck. Time to start hiring and retraining.

So you as a taxpayer want to pay for leases on buildings so government lackeys can go to the office to do spreadsheets they could do at home? Why, exactly? Explain the fiscal logic of wanting taxpayer money wasted on those buildings for work that can be done at home.

Canada's economic productivity is in a state of decline as of the last few years. As the federal civil service grew by 40%. Complete mess.

@@jptrainorthe federal public service had to grow because of the increase in population, there still isn’t enough workers to serve the public.

Wrong

@@Mysterio1021 it has grown 40% since 2015!! Reconnect to reality! It's a bloated disaster.

@@user-my1ps8tc9y lol, the population hasn't grown 40% since 2015. It has grown because: liberal incompetence.

So you as a taxpayer want to pay for leases on buildings so government lackeys can go to the office to do spreadsheets they could do at home? Why, exactly? Explain the fiscal logic of wanting taxpayer money wasted on those buildings for work that can be done at home.

Not if you're a federal civil servant apparently. Civil service size up 40%, national economic productivity in decline... hmmm??

@@loudenlaffnite246 Government workers are lazy fucks. As a tax payer, I want them back in the office, not watching movies and taking naps on the taxpayers dime.

What about your mama??

Know a guy who runs bad office cleaning rackets who wants this along with the folks who he has to grease to get the contracts lol ! So the grifting goes from the bottom to top .. REIT payments !

It's actually your personal issue because it's you with no facts.

@@user-iw5mp5th6d you must know her

Prove it. I can prove the work I do.

@@Headinavise And no you can't prove it. Yeah right you will show in YT your personnal and professionnal data ...

@@Headinavise And I can point to my MESSED UP ELECTRICITY BILLS that began being SCREWED UP TWO YEARS AGO when the local electricity supplier instituted work from home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@Headinavise work that has no value

Prove it with what a pay stub? A pay stub that I paid for is a taxpayer? What did you do to earn that pay stub? Leaning on a shovel doesn't count..