Ghost town: Sydney's public servants stay home

Workplace flexibility can be a boon for productivity across certain industries and jobs but it’s hard to believe a thought has been given to results in NSW’s public sector if the number of remote employees is not even known.

We spoke to the Daily Telegraph’s Clarissa Bye about the mystery number of NSW public servants working remotely - a number unknown even to Premier Dominic Perrottet, seemingly.

Clarissa Bye writes for the Daily Telegraph

The grand plan to kickstart Sydney’s economy and get the state’s thousands of public servants back into their offices appears to have faltered with the state government confessing they have no idea how many have returned.

Four months ago Premier Dominic Perrottet declared at a specially convened summit that “bringing back workers to the city is a civic duty from which we will all derive benefit, socially and economically”.

Read the whole story here: Sydney remains a ghost town as the state’s vanishing public servants stay home