"ONS employees will not comply with demand claiming mandated office-based attendance removes the ‘flexibility and trust promised to staff’"

Telegraph: 26th April 2024: Telegraph report on tax-funded civil servants refusing Cabinet Office demand to increase attendance in office

"Civil servants at Britain’s official statistics body have refused to be “forced back” into the office for two days a week. More than 1,000 employees at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have said that they will not go back to the office for 40 per cent of the week.

The staff, who are members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, have already voted in favour of strikes and other forms of industrial action in protest at the drive for more office-based working...

Last year, civil servants were told by the Cabinet Office that they should be in the office more than three days a week rather than working from home much of the time... drive for more staff to return to the office was prompted by concerns about drops in productivity...

...It comes just days after Rishi Sunak said that the boost in defence spending announced this week would be partly funded by cutting 70,000 Whitehall jobs, bringing the civil service back to pre-Brexit levels..."

 

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