Let's also factor in the time spent on personal devices. It's a wonder any work gets done at all. You can't be switch on to your work if your constantly checking your phone and thinking about the content, particularly on tasks requiring concentrated thought and/or action. No wonder productivity is going backwards.
I know a young bloke who started employment in the public service. First week was an induction. All of the Thursday was spent learning about leave entitlements.
A whole day.
Well, minus Welcome to Country, morning tea, lunch ……
We all know now why work from home is so popular . Just imagine ,fancy having to do a full days WORK ? I also heard about a bloke who sprained his ankle ,tripping over his cat while working from home ---and claimed compensation (????) True ? I dont know but nothing would surprise me here
There is only a problem when the attitude of the employees changes from “I am grateful for sick leave because if I get sick, I can use it”, to what currently seems to be the prevalent attitude; “take every possible day of every type of leave that is allowed, otherwise you will miss out when you retire or die”.
And an additional rule that one can take at least two days of sick leave without a sick leave certificate from a GP, such as exists for employees in QLD health for example, leaves open the possibility of a discussion amongst those employees about whose turn it is to take sick leave on any particular day, especially in those two days before and after weekends.
Freedom works best when moderated internally by external truth; sadly a small proportion of the population, lacking or ignoring external truth as a reference, need external moderation or even control for the benefit of society.
During my working life I could never take sick leave without some self-consciousness, no matter how ill I was. I never used up the allocated days.
If I was still working, I suspect I would "work from home" for at least part of the day, on the days I felt too ill to go to work. I notice next gen family or friends have not the slightest embarrassment about taking a sickie for recreation, or a rest after a heavy weekend.
So this is all really about work ethic...sickness has very little to do with it.
Work ethic Paul ? Now that IS an old fashioned concept that I learned when I started my electrical apprenticeship at aged fifteen You had ,almost be unable to walk before a sickie could be taken and then in all probability have to work Saturday to get the work done . A sickie was hardly worth the trouble
I need to learn how to use sickies. I bet the productivity doesn’t drop in the public sector because they are overstaffed to begin with. I wonder how many take carers leave because, ohhhh, their washing machine doesn’t work
This is a bit harsh. I think you have to factor in the damage to our immune systems that Covid lockdowns and particularly the covid injection has done to everyone not just public servants. Although they would have been the most injected particularly nurses.
My family save a couple all now work for the government because that is just where the work is. Not their fault. Just how things work at the moment. One is vaccine damaged but doesn’t let it stop her. The rest soldier on.
As for working from home if you are a single parent with small children it is very useful. I have a daughter in law like that. Her parents, us and after school care take care of the rest.
It’s all very well lauding Morrison for one mediocre speech but he and his minions have done long term incalculable harm to Australia with no consequences for them.
Unfortunately when we think of public servants we normally think of obese bored paper shufflers whose greatest danger is a paper cut or getting lost coming back to their desk after a two hour lunch at the pub but consider all those involved in aviation police fire ambulance hospital water electricity and all those who cant work from home ?Certanily not the political class or associated beureaucrats who would be flat out WORKING for nine days in any given year ---these are the parasites that need excising from the work force .
What also irks me is that when they retire or resign they get all their unused sick days paid in lieu, or “worked out!”
Let's also factor in the time spent on personal devices. It's a wonder any work gets done at all. You can't be switch on to your work if your constantly checking your phone and thinking about the content, particularly on tasks requiring concentrated thought and/or action. No wonder productivity is going backwards.
I know a young bloke who started employment in the public service. First week was an induction. All of the Thursday was spent learning about leave entitlements.
A whole day.
Well, minus Welcome to Country, morning tea, lunch ……
We all know now why work from home is so popular . Just imagine ,fancy having to do a full days WORK ? I also heard about a bloke who sprained his ankle ,tripping over his cat while working from home ---and claimed compensation (????) True ? I dont know but nothing would surprise me here
Looks like to me that our public service is rotten to the core. Is there a pill to cure that sickness?
Yes.
Great comments on the "Elevated Absenteeism" James. So on the money, as usual
Now there is a real exotic euphemism for "Lots of sickies".
There is only a problem when the attitude of the employees changes from “I am grateful for sick leave because if I get sick, I can use it”, to what currently seems to be the prevalent attitude; “take every possible day of every type of leave that is allowed, otherwise you will miss out when you retire or die”.
And an additional rule that one can take at least two days of sick leave without a sick leave certificate from a GP, such as exists for employees in QLD health for example, leaves open the possibility of a discussion amongst those employees about whose turn it is to take sick leave on any particular day, especially in those two days before and after weekends.
Freedom works best when moderated internally by external truth; sadly a small proportion of the population, lacking or ignoring external truth as a reference, need external moderation or even control for the benefit of society.
During my working life I could never take sick leave without some self-consciousness, no matter how ill I was. I never used up the allocated days.
If I was still working, I suspect I would "work from home" for at least part of the day, on the days I felt too ill to go to work. I notice next gen family or friends have not the slightest embarrassment about taking a sickie for recreation, or a rest after a heavy weekend.
So this is all really about work ethic...sickness has very little to do with it.
Work ethic Paul ? Now that IS an old fashioned concept that I learned when I started my electrical apprenticeship at aged fifteen You had ,almost be unable to walk before a sickie could be taken and then in all probability have to work Saturday to get the work done . A sickie was hardly worth the trouble
Work ethic is the spanner in the wheels of a well-oiled machine of obstruction.
Of which our labor "leadership "are past masters )obstruction of anything likely to be useful but not in labors interests )
I need to learn how to use sickies. I bet the productivity doesn’t drop in the public sector because they are overstaffed to begin with. I wonder how many take carers leave because, ohhhh, their washing machine doesn’t work
This is a bit harsh. I think you have to factor in the damage to our immune systems that Covid lockdowns and particularly the covid injection has done to everyone not just public servants. Although they would have been the most injected particularly nurses.
My family save a couple all now work for the government because that is just where the work is. Not their fault. Just how things work at the moment. One is vaccine damaged but doesn’t let it stop her. The rest soldier on.
As for working from home if you are a single parent with small children it is very useful. I have a daughter in law like that. Her parents, us and after school care take care of the rest.
It’s all very well lauding Morrison for one mediocre speech but he and his minions have done long term incalculable harm to Australia with no consequences for them.
Look on the bright side. The fewer hours they work the less damage they do.
Gave me quite a chuckle Jeremy - yes I agree 😂
Glad to be of service ma'am.
Unfortunately when we think of public servants we normally think of obese bored paper shufflers whose greatest danger is a paper cut or getting lost coming back to their desk after a two hour lunch at the pub but consider all those involved in aviation police fire ambulance hospital water electricity and all those who cant work from home ?Certanily not the political class or associated beureaucrats who would be flat out WORKING for nine days in any given year ---these are the parasites that need excising from the work force .
Totally agree.