Working From Home While Britain GRINDS To A HALT?’ | Civil Service Savaged

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Whitehall has been accused of “cooking the books” over civil servants’ office attendance after new analysis suggested staff are attending for less than two days a week on average. The Centre for Government Reform calculated average attendance across the Civil Service at approximately 39 per cent — well below the Government’s 60 per cent minimum. Its chief executive, Ameer Kotecha, argued that previously published figures measured the proportion of available desks being used rather than the proportion of the total workforce attending. Some offices have far fewer desks than employees, potentially creating a misleading picture of attendance. Ameer, who spent ten years working in the Foreign Office, warned that excessive homeworking was damaging Whitehall productivity and slowing down decisions. He said: “Everything happens far more slowly when people are not in the office. It’s like wading through sludge.” Presenter David Bull highlighted figures suggesting that some departments had

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