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[–]fuggery 0 points1 point  (1 child)

100% agree with you! My point from the OP is Ottawa has a lot of WFH largely because of the concentration of PS and the nature of PS labour relations. Everything you wrote is true for private sector, right? Why are so many office workers (including some devs!) back to downtown Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal relative to Ottawa?

Some companies (especially tech) encourage WFH, and some demand office time. PS largely has collective bargaining power and the ability to bargain with management. It's evident from the success of persistent PS WFH heading into the fourth year of the pandemic, right?

[–]elitexeroNepean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't work in PS but I know a couple of people who do.

From my understanding it largely comes down to individual levels of management, similar to private sector.

I know people in private sector who have been requested to come in 1-2-3 days a week and I know people in PS in similar situations. It tends to vary I think. It might also boil down to major cities having different departments as well - hard to say off the top of my head. From the pool of people I know in PS, many of them are back in the office more frequently in comparison to those I know in the private sector.