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Outsourcing production to China was also not the smartest choice (made by other companies as well - right, JDS?)
Federal Government & Union spar over returning to office
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Outsourcing production to China was also not the smartest choice (made by other companies as well - right, JDS?)
Who also bequeathed their defunct Ottawa campus to become a federal headquarters.
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So you're saying we need more Canadian company bankruptcies to get more GoC office space?
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So much for breaking the Ottawa bubble. Those unwashed masses in the regions don't know anything anyways. One of the best benefits of WFH from allowing an actual diversity in the PS.
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Well last time I did some co-work at TCC (all the empty no-longer-Shopify floors on 8-9-10) there was lots of free space at 150 Elgin…
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One course on how government works I took (in Ottawa, of course) had one instructor (who'd worked in both HQ and regional offices of a department) saying HQ liked to call regional office bosses "warlords," so I'm not surprised at Head Shed hesitancy about encouraging teams whose members come from different parts of the federation. #CentreKnowsBest
In other news, how not to make friends with the neighbours?
'Buy nothing': PSAC wants federal workers to boycott downtown Ottawa businesses
A union representing federal employees is asking its members to bring their own lunch to work, in an apparent retaliation against downtown Ottawa businesses as new return-to-office protocols begin.
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Yes and no. Pressure from downtown business wanting PS lunch bucks leads to pressure from City Hall, which leads to pressure of the government located in that city.
When downtown businesses started pushing that a couple of years back I started spending less downtown.
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The other factor is some of the same businesses are only open from 11-3, and charge $25 for a shitty sandwich or subpar quick lunch. I don't know many people that can afford $30 a day for lunch, but when the same people are complaining about the PS aren't even putting in a full workday it's hard to care about their business failing.
I deliberately went out and got takeout from a place down the street from my house in the burbs on Tuesday though after getting home though as an extra screw you, but plenty of places that I won't shadow their doors anymore because of their complaining. Free market is a bitch I guess.
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Meanwhile, in Scotland...
Town centres are left struggling as more Scots now work from home
‘The dearth of shopper footfall has affected stores of all sizes and has left many gap-toothed high streets. The shift to hybrid working makes it trickier for store vacancy rates to fully recover.’
‘Fresh action is needed to deliver vibrant and attractive town and city centres with compelling reasons for people to visit and spend money.
'Coherent policymaking, lower business rates, and an honest acceptance of the role of private transport in helping access our retail destinations would help.’
New figures from Scotland’s Census 2022 showed that 800,500 Scots said they worked from home, which is 31.6 per cent of all workers.
This has soared from 259,600 at the time of the last census in 2011.
As Scotland came out of lockdown restrictions, the Scottish Government told businesses that embedding home working habits which have been developed during lockdowns and cutting car use could have a real impact on reducing emissions.
Scottish Conservative business spokesman Murdo Fraser said: ‘It’s clear that some of the changes to working practices adopted during the pandemic are here to stay.
‘But it’s concerning that the SNP government seems to have given very little thought to the impact on our city centres, or the wider economy.
‘The SNP must urgently start thinking about how we achieve the growth Scotland desperately needs against this new background.’
Town centres are left struggling as more Scots now work from home
A generation of Scots have switched to home working - leading to concerns about the future of the country's town centres.
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Downtowns adapted before, they can adapt again.Meanwhile, in Scotland...
Town centres are left struggling as more Scots now work from home
‘The dearth of shopper footfall has affected stores of all sizes and has left many gap-toothed high streets. The shift to hybrid working makes it trickier for store vacancy rates to fully recover.’
‘Fresh action is needed to deliver vibrant and attractive town and city centres with compelling reasons for people to visit and spend money.
'Coherent policymaking, lower business rates, and an honest acceptance of the role of private transport in helping access our retail destinations would help.’
New figures from Scotland’s Census 2022 showed that 800,500 Scots said they worked from home, which is 31.6 per cent of all workers.
This has soared from 259,600 at the time of the last census in 2011.
As Scotland came out of lockdown restrictions, the Scottish Government told businesses that embedding home working habits which have been developed during lockdowns and cutting car use could have a real impact on reducing emissions.
Scottish Conservative business spokesman Murdo Fraser said: ‘It’s clear that some of the changes to working practices adopted during the pandemic are here to stay.
‘But it’s concerning that the SNP government seems to have given very little thought to the impact on our city centres, or the wider economy.
‘The SNP must urgently start thinking about how we achieve the growth Scotland desperately needs against this new background.’
Town centres are left struggling as more Scots now work from home
A generation of Scots have switched to home working - leading to concerns about the future of the country's town centres.www.dailymail.co.uk
Maybe they need to make downtowns places people actually want to live, rather than places people have to go to pay for the place they want to live.
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