You’ve piqued my curiosity.
Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???
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HavokFour
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daftandbarmy
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Wow...
MilEME09
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Almost as if working from home made people less efficient. Dont get me wrong I love working from home, but there needs to be accountability too regarding deliverables
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Can you provide a reference to this ? I cant find anything.
Nor I.
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expected to be introduced later this morning after party leader Pierre Poilievreinexplicably failed to introduce an amendment at the close of his response to the budget yesterday afternoon.
“Traditionally the official Opposition leader has proposed the main budget amendment,” the Star notes.
“The Bloc Québécois seized on the unexpected opening to swiftly present notice of their own motion to amend the budget — which now becomes the main proposed change to the document — as Conservatives scrambled to fix the oversight.
Whoops.
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Doesn't help his upcoming performance evaluation with his bosses.
Heard it yesterday from David Cochrane.
Looks like a few people up thread have the goods on it.
He’s not having a good last few weeks…
Halifax Tar
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Indeed.
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By last few weeks do you mean the previous few weeks?
Or do you mean these are his final few weeks.
The former but the latter might be foresight…By last few weeks do you mean the previous few weeks?
Or do you mean these are his final few weeks.
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I've never been able to understand how exactly someone assesses public service productivity.
Hours worked is easy, but there is no kind of equivalent of 'hours worked per widget produced', and things like getting contingencies in place for emergency preparedness, or all the extra work required to maintain obsolete stuff is inherently inefficient, but nothing to do with the workforce.
Travel approval is the obvious example; need to get trip approval at the DG/ADM level for the concept of the trip, then get the travel itinerary approved, and finally get actual travel approval in claimsX, which adds delays and frequently increases booking cost for flight tickets, and LOE around that costs more than the travel, but at the worker level means that something that used to take 15 minutes now can take days due to process increases. At the KPI level though, would be stupid to compare the LOE it takes now to LOE it used to take for a measure of productivity.
YMMV with WFH, but I think the problem children weren't doing shit working from the office either, so general management issue, and PS doesn't seem noticeably worse compared to large private firms that I worked in years ago. If you really want productivity giving management tools, training and mentoring to actually manage people, as well as sufficient resources to do things properly. We're way understaffed, so sure we're doing some stuff pretty inefficiently just because we don't have enough bandwidth to actually track and manage the workload effectively when you are just scrambling to whatever has the nearest deadline
Personally find it more productive to do a lot of WFH, and also easily take micro breaks (like this) before tackling things like detailed reviews that are extremely difficult to do in a open concept office and takes 2-3 times as long. Some things are better in person, so hybrid works well for a lot of office settings, but that's where giving managers discretion makes sense. If you want to issue top down directives either way that don't make sense at the team level can't really complain about productivity impacts to the individual workers
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Even if legislatively allowed, I suspect cultural acceptance will lag behind. Either that or it will be like some Middle Eastern countries where immigration is essentially cheap labour.
The multiple levels of travel approval in your example is the type of thing that outsiders site as inefficient bureaucracy. Even at the provincial level, I travelled to the UK and US. The boss said 'go' so that's local approval. I had to get DM approval because it was out of country. After that, it was the normal approval of expenses when I got back.
