Public service employment has grown by 31 per cent

[daftandbarmy]

To the contrary, shifting national HQ functions to incorporate folks from outside Ottawa is a huge positive to bringing in talent and escaping groupthink. Shrinking real property costs is just a bonus.

BC tried that, they still are.

But senior leaders need to attend at the Victoria office/HQ on a regular basis, and no one from Williams Lake wants to move to Victoria and have to pay an extra million bucks for an average house.

More often than not, those who live in - or close to - Victoria continue to have the career progression edge.

 

[Furniture]

I am going to suggest that WFH has done nothing for skills transfer, succession planning or innovation to other stove pipes.

Those are not problems caused by WFH, those are problems caused by a culture that encourages withholding information, because information is power.

I worked in offices just a few feet away from people who didn't pass on a single thing, because as long as they were the only one who could fix problems, they had job security.

 

[Kirkhill]

Those are not problems caused by WFH, those are problems caused by a culture that encourages withholding information, because information is power.

I worked in offices just a few feet away from people who didn't pass on a single thing, because as long as they were the only one who could fix problems, they had job security.

Doesn't sound like any office I ever worked in. Projects were communal affairs even when one person was the designated lead.

Of course I am a relic of smoking in the office and a beer with my Swiss Chalet at lunch. As well as 54 hour shifts when commissioning plants.

 

[PuckChaser]

To the contrary, shifting national HQ functions to incorporate folks from outside Ottawa is a huge positive to bringing in talent and escaping groupthink. Shrinking real property costs is just a bonus.

We can reduce the bloat in the NCR and still require 5 days a week in the office. Many of the institutions in Ottawa don't need to be there but the black hole has a powerful gravity.