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Unions say the idea is short-sighted and unsustainable. The federal government says it may “reallocate” its co-working sites to help departments that are short on space meet the goal of having unionized employees report to the office four days a week starting July 6. “As part of the transition back to a four-day-a-week office schedule, various options are currently being...
After years of talk about shedding office space, the federal government will need more work stations in some locations with public servants headed back to the office four days a week in July, according to an analysis by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). The department responsible for managing government buildings is looking to quickly find solutions, which could include...
Internal feedback from managers within the federal department responsible for overseeing public servants' gradual return to the office reveals they had their own concerns about space, cleanliness and technology last fall.
Some federal public servants in Ottawa wait nearly an hour each morning for a coveted spot in one of the city's suburban co-working spaces rather than endure the commute to their government offices downtown. On a recent weekday morning, employees queued outside a co-working office at Place d'Orléans, each hoping to secure one of about 30 workspaces available on a...
Canada's public service integrity watchdog says it's so overwhelmed with tips about wrongdoing, from mismanagement to violations of departmental codes of conduct, that it needs to double its budget just to keep up. Harriet Solloway, public sector integrity commissioner for just over a year, is warning the "crisis" could undermine her office's mandate — to investigate wrongdoing in the federal...
A device federal public servants call "the little robot" began appearing in Gatineau office buildings in March. It travels through the workplace to collect data using about 20 sensors and a 360-degree camera, according to Yahya Saad, co-founder of GlobalDWS, which created the robot.