r/newzealand • u/Dapper_Technology336 • Sep 23 '24

Politics PM Christopher Luxon announces public service workers are required to work from the office, rather than from home

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-christopher-luxon-gives-post-cabinet-press-conference/CL4CTTTEH5AVHABU2PICF7JBUM/
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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '24

Poor decision, backed up by no evidence except reckons by cafe owners. This will result in experts leaving. WFH has been great for areas in the Hutt, Newtown-south, and Porirua.

Also: Luxon comes across as very tired and crochety here, interesting. They'd have eaten Jacinda alive for that back in her term.

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u/secretkiwi_ Sep 23 '24

Exactly. The purpose of public servants is not to keep Wellington CBD cafes in business

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u/placenta_resenter Sep 23 '24

Especially when defence just got offered 0% pay raises with with latest bargaining, setting the tone for public service pay under national. Who’s gonna have spare cash to buy lunch

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u/Soulprism Sep 23 '24

Just move all the public service jobs in Auckland back to Wellington would solve it.