DVLA Adding To HGV Shortages

[The Lone Gunman]

Do you have no opinions of your own?

I have plenty of opinions and I'm of the opinion that you're making assumptions based on little other than your own biases.

I'm a civil servant. The only times I've worked at home during the pandemic have been on weekends when I've done unpaid work in an attempt to make up for the chronic staff shortages in our office which have been brought about by severe funding cuts in recent years.

Despite the fact that around 80% of the work my office does is now digital and could easily be done by the staff while at home, our senior management have insisted on 100% staff attendance in the office since February - this while the Welsh government were recommending that people should work from home if they can and while the senior management (who are all based in England) were working from home themselves.

It's Ok, though - we have plastic barriers between our desks now. They were installed on Monday afternoon. I kid you not. Meanwhile, the private enterprise that is based on the floor above us, and whose staff numbers usually dwarf ours, has had little more than a skeleton staff on site since the pandemic began.

[JamesWales]

I have plenty of opinions and I'm of the opinion that you're making assumptions based on little other than your own biases.

I'm a civil servant. The only times I've worked at home during the pandemic have been on weekends when I've done unpaid work in an attempt to make up for the chronic staff shortages in our office which have been brought about by severe funding cuts in recent years.

Despite the fact that around 80% of the work my office does is now digital and could easily be done by the staff while at home, our senior management have insisted on 100% staff attendance in the office since February - this while the Welsh government were recommending that people should work from home if they can and while the senior management (who are all based in England) were working from home themselves.

It's Ok, though - we have plastic barriers between our desks now. They were installed on Monday afternoon. I kid you not. Meanwhile, the private enterprise that is based on the floor above us, and whose staff numbers usually dwarf ours, has had little more than a skeleton staff on site since the pandemic began.

Thats interesting. My experience is the exact opposite. Everyone I know in public sector offices is generally at home. Private sector, the opposite.

It would certainly be interesting to see the data

[The Lone Gunman]

It would certainly be interesting to see the data

It would, because for many months I've been reading reports about companies whose staff are mostly or entirely working from home, and how they'll never go back to working the way they used to as it was costly and counter-productive.

I'm certainly not seeing much evidence of all of the private sector offices being full again when I walk through Cardiff city centre each day, that's for sure.

[JamesWales]

It would, because for many months I've been reading reports about companies whose staff are mostly or entirely working from home, and how they'll never go back to working the way they used to as it was costly and counter-productive.

I'm certainly not seeing much evidence of all of the private sector offices being full again when I walk through Cardiff city centre each day, that's for sure.

I didnt say full, and no one is talking about all companies going back to how they were before the pandemic. A shift, unquestionably has occured

[Rjk]

Thats interesting. My experience is the exact opposite. Everyone I know in public sector offices is generally at home. Private sector, the opposite.

It would certainly be interesting to see the data

I work in the private sector and almost everyone in my company, and the previous company I worked for are still working from home most of the time.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Thats interesting. My experience is the exact opposite. Everyone I know in public sector offices is generally at home. Private sector, the opposite.

It would certainly be interesting to see the data

I went in on Monday to return my IT equipment and I was surprised to see a very tiny proportion of the staff in the office (and there are about 900 on the books). We were blessed with portable laptops and we were used to hot desking before Covid hit, which helped.