If public servants are going to be sent back to the office full time, it needs to be for the right reasons | Opinion

I strongly suspect that old-style, hierarchical public sector management also played a role, given its emphasis on maintaining a line of vision and personal control. But frankly, there are many jobs, in the public service and elsewhere, where if you don’t know whether your employees are productive remotely you don’t know if they’re productive in the office either….