Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands by the PCS union that staff at the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shouldn’t have to go into the office, ever, if they don’t feel like it, the government has slumped into an amorphous mass of jelly. ONS staff will be asked merely to ensure that attendance in the office averages 40 per cent. In other words, for every dedicated and conscientious individual who beavers away at their desk five days there may be one and a half shysters lounging around on the sofa at home, pretending to work as they catch up on the soaps.

Of all government agencies, the ONS knows best the desperate need to end the scam of working from home (WFH)........

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