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Originally Posted by Cull06
The problem for the DVLA is you have a massive organisation where they are already packed into the offices like sardines.
2m distancing means that far less than half can fit in. Obviously that’s going to create issues and I’m pretty certain that an order for 5,500 laptops right now is going to be difficult to fulfil.
If they thrown them all back into work and this virus goes through them like wildfire then no ones going back to back them up. Certainly no one here.
Easy for the armchair chat warriors to slag them off under the ‘all civil servants are workshy’ narrative from behind a computer screen though I guess.
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In defence of the lowly Civil Service employee.
Prior to Covid-19 the normal Civil Service office, of whichever department, was packed with staff within a few feet of each other and there was a lot of “hot desking” as there weren’t enough desks for each member of staff to have their own desk and kit. I know as I used to be one of them before I retired. Contact with my previous colleagues indicates that many of them are now expected to work from home but some are still required to work at an office and their is little expectation of them returning to normal working before sometime next year. Prior to the present situation staffing levels were being reduced and the workload was ever increasing. Most of them are doing their very best in difficult circumstances. Now they are desperately recruiting temporary staff to cover the extra work, but of course, they are yet to be trained.