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This is in French and behind a paywall.

That being here is the translation of the headline:

"Doug Ford justified the mandatory return of public servants to the office by saying that in-person work increased productivity. But the department responsible for the measure disagrees, reveals a document obtained by Le Droit under the Access to Information Act."

This release was Pre-FOI law changes.

If anyone has access to behind the paywall that would be fantastic. But the headline basically says Ford was advised not to mention productivity when he made the RTO announcement.

Am I using it wrong? I find that its absolutely garbage. It doesn't help with Excel, it doesn't help with anything aside from making sentences sound smarter or shortening them to consist of only the relevant information.

I also have seen a bunch of videos about Teams and spying and Co pilot's job in surveillance so I use it sparingly

Edit: It looks like a lot of you are commenting on the I've done everything in almost every industry bit. Some clarification I've done alot of jobs over my career in a lot of industries. I haven't been CEO of a company, but I've been in the C-suite of some organizations. I've dishwashed and swept floors all the way up to the C-Suite (not multinational, but of reasonably large organizations).

I want to help the community and I was hoping public service was going to be the case.

Also, yes after reading the first edit it came off like my shit doesn't stink. Didn't intend that, just wanted to give an understanding of where I've been without going super into it.

Main post:

A bit about me. I've done everything in almost every industry. I've built from 0 and got it to at least 80 before leaving. I've been in sinking ships (companies). I've been to the best of the best "mind molding"/career changing/career accelerating institutions (I want to say academia, which is true, but also institutions beyond academia). Basically I'm shy of a PhD but have all the hardest certifications and designations to get in my industries/professions. And then I said to myself. I want to help people and joined OPS because I thought, my noble calling might be in the public service.

Being in other organizations, you become institutionalized. For example, a JP Morgan investment banker will become institutionalized as a fuckyoumoney sociopath; an academic will become institutionalized in a whydoesn'tindustrylistentousbecausewe'realwaysrightbecausewehaveallthe(meta)data. I didn't not expect some institutionalization within OPS. But I was surprised to see the type of institutionalization. (And I'm not saying institutionalization is bad).

I notice that decision makers (anyone not unionized) says they love innovation, new thought etc, but... maybe because its the nature of the system, or because there isn't an incentive to care or education/training... I think experience within OPS is seen as a greater value to the organization than outside thought and perspective. I notice that people who are experienced (and its great to have experience) grow horizontally/diagonally instead of vertically. And I don't think its their fault, its just the nature of the organization. I've been told I'm too new to my position to grow and I'm sitting here wondering, I've been doing this for years in organizations big and small...but because I don't have OPS experience, its all for naught. I could have gone to the Harvard School of Public Service but because its not the OPS School of Public Service, its not valuable. A great case was that I came in with 20 years of experience in my field but was priced at a mid-low salary so that I could grow in my role. I think that experience = institutionalization. The more experience you get = the more koolaid you sip.

I've noticed a culture of stifling innovation, not from the bottom but from the middle to top.

But from the bottom (us working stiffs), people want to grow and get better but are pushed in a box or is the nail that gets hammered. There's a strong itiswhatitis culture here. I get why though. That being said I love you all. You're all great people and I see the spark that needs the gasoline.

Does anyone notice this? Does anyone see it differently? What can I do to push for innovation or something? My impression is that this place is set up for failure; if money wasn't thrown at it then it would collapse.

I was reading through the AMAPCEO CA for PHO and it seems like they didn't learn from us regarding the WFH arrangements, yet 97% of the people voted for the new CA.

Its mostly a copy and paste from what the OPS CA is.

Whats up with that?

Has anyone grieved to their manager about their AWA's yet? I haven't heard about the AWA's anyhow and I also haven't heard of anyone grieving them yet.