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These fuckers really are on a speed run to be the first single term government we've had since the 70s.
And being told you have to deal with two hours of commuting because a bunch of Cafés are struggling must feel great, too.
I really hope you’re right, and some of their rushed decisions make it seem like they think the same, but National is still polling 10% higher than Labour.
Which really is a stunning failure on their behalf, it reminds me of Hilary losing to Trump. Absolutely amazing.
Next election is shaping up to be another giant douche vs turd sandwich affair.
I know your reflex is to spew hatred towards labour and blame them for everything but the problem is really with you and people like you.
The public is the blame for their opinions and actions. The fact is that the public actually supports and enjoys everything National is doing. They want to hurt the poor, they want to hurt the Maori, they want to hurt immigrants, they want privatised healthcare and education system.
The country is going to shit because the decent people have left the country. What remains are the dregs.
She has issued new guidance to the Public Service Commissioner setting an expectation that “working from home arrangements are not an entitlement and should be by agreement between the employee and the employer”.
So like it is now?
“Our starting position is that actually your working-from-home agreement needs to be consistent with your ability to perform your role, your team’s ability to perform, and your agency’s ability to perform. The simple fact is in some circumstances, you won’t be able to work from home at all,” she said.
So, like it is now?
She said at the Public Service Commission, 66% of staff had working-from-home arrangements, with a third working from home one day a week and another third working from home two days a week, for example.
So most staff are in the office the majoriy of the time?
Wellington Chamber of Commerce chief executive Simon Arcus said, “the public service makes up a huge proportion of Wellington’s workforce, and their absence has been notable in recent years”.
Maybe the lack of people is influenced by the government making thousands of employees redundant? Which is highlighed:
National Secretary for the Public Service Association, Duane Leo said, “if the Government really cared about the Wellington economy, then it shouldn’t have cut thousands of hardworking, dedicated public service workers from its payroll”.
My thoughts on this would be that it's ok for there to be less hospitality businesses in the CBD. If there isn't the foot traffic because it has spread to more localised areas then that seems like a win. And if people are cutting back on spending their money on non-essentials, isn't that exactly what the government says they want the poors to be doing?
on RNZ it was mentioned that many of them will have remote work written into their contracts. Good luck National.
I saw something the other day in response to I think Amazon demanding workers work from office. If its so impossible to be productive working from home, then as soon as you walk out of the building at the end of the day, stop looking at your work phone, never reply to emails, don't answer the phone.*
*That's as it should be anyway, don't do free labour for your boss!
Tolls my boss as soon as I'm back In. No more 6 am or 9 pm calls. It's 9 to 5. Really suxs for all those international people in work with regularly In the early morning but I have to go in office for better cohesion or some bs such a shame.
First up, how much of the downturn in CBD spend is because of govt. layoffs? And how much is countered by an upturn in the wider region as people go to cafés in Kapiti & Upper Hutt instead of Wellington?
Secondly, for about 10 years govt agencies have been aiming for smaller offices and more people working from home. They can't just turn it around like that, lots of places won't have enough desks
Yes, austerity during a recession does generally extend and heighten the recession. John Maynard Keynes must be rolling in his grave.
This is just Nactional Fist's latest culture war bullshit; a distraction from the absolute shambles they've made of the economy since dropping an austerity bomb on a recession.
The point about revitalising city centre hospitality is a complete red herring.
6500 public servants were sacked earlier this year. Most of them were in Wellington, a city of 200k souls. Even you add in the Hutt Valley and Kapiti Coast, that's maybe 400k people. So a working population of maybe 200k. Not all the sacked public servants were in Wellington, but that still means around 3% of those who were working are now not. That automatically translates to a 3% cut in spending.
Given that many more public servants are now concerned about joining the dole queue and have cut discretionary spending to the bone, you can see that a 10% fall in spending is a direct consequence of the government's job cuts. That won't be spread evenly, so we can expect to see fewer shops, cafes and bars in town - and that means even more unemployment which in turn means less spending.
That's what's killing the Wellington hospitality trade.