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Stay-at-home civil servants risk wrath of their real bosses

EVERYONE who has worked from home knows that it simply is not the same as attending a workplace. There may be a few saint-like individuals who can manage the same levels of self-discipline when they are sitting at a screen, miles from the boss, but even these paragons know that they are missing out on key interactions with colleagues.

In many cases, working from home also means much less contact with the public.

And in Government there is secret material which simply cannot be allowed to leave the premises or risked on leaky electronic links.

If you are not there, you cannot see it. As we learned during the Afghan crisis, this makes a major difference.

So it is alarming to learn that Ministers face so much resistance to their calls for civil servants to return to their desks. Some fear that as many as 60 per cent of staff are now so used to working from home that they hope to do so indefinitely.

The Government is rightly furious that this idea is gaining hold. We need to get the country back to work, and bring life and commerce back to our city centres where so many make their living from services.

We cannot say often enough that civil servants are paid by the public, out of taxes subtracted from hard-earned wages which they have worked for – often not from home.

If civil servants treat their ultimate employers with contempt, they will in the long run threaten the job security that they seem to think is theirs by right.

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