Civil servants will be placed under "Big Brother-style" monitoring in a bid to make them more efficient. The crackdown on home working comes after business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg left passive-aggressive comments on the desks of those who had not been in the office when he made his rounds.
Wi-Fi and log-ins will be monitored to check whether civil servants are attending their base of operations. It has been introduced in a bid to boost efficiency, with office occupancy having dipped to 42%, according to reports.
The Foreign Office's rate is lower, sitting between 30 and 39%, BirminghamLive reports. However, Mark Serwotka, boss of the PCS civil service union, said: “This is a worrying Big Brother-style development that we fear could be used to victimise our members.”
