Sunday, 2 January 2022
Sounds like a culling opportunity to me
COVID-19: Contingency plans drawn up over fears a quarter of public sector workers could be absent due to Omicron
Boris Johnson is tasking ministers with contingency planning in a bid to reduce possible disruption to public services and supply chains caused by the current record-breaking number of COVID cases.
I didn't realise they had gone back to work. Whenever we walk past our council offices they seem to be empty.
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Yes, if we can mitigate disruption when they are working from home, and again when they are off sick, that should give rise to a few thoughts in HR departments.
Mind you, there will be no benefits to us as taxpayers. Bureaucracies protect themselves.
Or, alternatively, repurpose them to other jobs that have been lost over the years. Like Bus Conductors, weekly bin collectors, street sweepers, recyclers, Post Office staff...
Rather more useful to the public and probably no more expensive than paying them unemployment benefits.
Sam - yes bureaucracies do protect themselves. However much dead wood they carry, the most they are likely to do is redeploy people. Or promote them of course.
DJ - from what I see there is an enormous amount of simple maintenance to be done such as keeping towns clean and tidy and making sure empty shops don't look derelict. Couldn't be done by working from home though.
"I didn't realise they had gone back to work. Whenever we walk past our council offices they seem to be empty."
Not dissimilar from my GP surgery, who when I phoned to make my annual asthma review appointment, informed me, they had postponed all reviews as staff? had gone elsewhere to help out with the jabbing, you couldn't make it up they have been to all intents closed for two years!
Wiggia - and doctors are an extremely expensive way of delivering mass vaccination.
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