As tens of thousands of public servants return to the office for a minimum of three days a week this week, public service unions and some workers are expressing frustration with the federal government’s new hybrid work policy.
“It’s challenging. We were told there isn’t enough desk space for everyone, so we’re not quite sure how this is going to work,” Leah Schmidt said while attending a union protest in downtown Ottawa Monday morning.
“We’ve heard the term hunger games thrown around quite a bit in terms of desk booking, which is not how I want to go into the workday.”
Starting this week, federal employees in the core public service will be required to be in the office a minimum of three days a week, and executives will need to be on-site a minimum of four days.
The new requirements apply to 282,152 employees in the core public service, …