Is your agency bucking the trend? The APS work-from-home winners and losers

Perks, pelf, pensions, privilege.....

This is human nature at its laziest best. Decision makers in the public service are directly benefiting from doing "nothing from home" and hence allowing their staff to do the same. Can someone pass me the Kool-Aid please?

Government (like Victoria with their work from home mandates) are making a swift call that 'work from home' is benefiting us all. It is such a narrow minded view. It's too soon to see the real economic impacts to be talking about mandates.

Inefficient governments should not be dictating to private enterprise how to run their businesses to maintain productivity, innovation, culture and oh...to remain sustainable.

Let's talk about the real benefit to public servants? It's so they can conduct their private lives during 9am-5pm on the purse of tax payers while private business pay from their back pocket to try and compete with the cushy rights of government employees just to retain staff.

If governments and tax payers are so hell-bent on work life balance and family friendly workplaces then put your money with your mouth is. Use tax dollars (maybe take it from the juicy payroll tax bucket) and subsidise private business for having to deliver that.

Otherwise you're essentially asking private business (many whom are already struggling) to foot the bill for social services payments because the government can't work out a way to fix the structural issues that are making work life balance so much harder to achieve. Hmmm lack of competition directly impacting cost of living, lack of choice with childcare options perhaps.

Maybe if the policy makers did less work from home, and more collaboration in an office, face to face, they might come up with innovative ideas to solve the problem without needing to ruin the economy.