Honestly for decent pay, if your asked to get into the office 3 days a week, STFU and do it.
In context, the GoC decided during the pandemic and WFH to cut the number of workspaces significantly, so our actual footprint dropped to about half for the groups that have some kind of hybrid work with 2-3 days in the office (with some doing 5 and others doing zero and working fully remote). That saved something like $20k a head, but is completely counter to the new return to office requirements for actual seats available.
Now with the 40-50% of the workstations to personnel we are now back to CAF 5 days a week (but don't ask for an assigned cubicle or locker you peasant swine) and PS 60% of the time, so you can do the math on how well that works. To top it off, they will only apparently count it as 'working in the office' if you physically plug into and log in on a hardline connection, but a lot of the hoteling workstations don't actually have drops so you are logging onto the wifi. Waiting clarification, but they may also not consider something like attending a course, working on TD, in person site visits etc as 'in person work', so it's pretty nuts. I'm spending this week in an in person symposium that isn't in the office, so will see if we have to explain ourselves for some reason.
For other context the public transit system in Ottawa is broken, so the commute which may have previously been 45 minutes and 1 bus is now 1.5-2+ hours and needs multiple buses and a train that may or may not be running (was down this am), and places like Carling don't have adequate parking. I'm not spending 4.5 hours a day commuting on public transit for an 7.5 hour a day job, so just bite the bullet and drive in (which takes about an hour and a bit total). For a government committed to GHG reduction, carbon taxes etc this is driving a huge amount of congestion and emissions in the capital, for no real gain.
The GoC had years of complete remote working in these groups to identify shortcomings and non-performance, but during that time actually kept saying how productive everyone was etc, and won't actually give any of the data that they collected that they say are justifying this for 'efficiency' to managers or supervisors to do anything about it. Their lists seem to include people that have retired, changed departments, on deployment/tasking, etc so their stats are likely complete bullshit, but they won't let us see anything or say who they think isn't logging on etc for the remote work to figure out what they are talking about or correct anything.
This whole thing is an absolutely leadership failure from Cabinet on down to the DM/senior EX level, not the public servants.
I get that people won't have sympathy, but on the flip side you probably need to stop complaining about things like DND procurement times and CAF readiness, when the GoC is cutting off it's own nose and pissing off the working level folks that buy parts, run projects etc that were still plugging through and getting it done, despite all the extra roadblocks and requirements the GoC keeps adding on to increase the workload. See a lot of retirement announcements, and know of a lot of people waiting to see if there will be a buyout, and that's in positions where we already havea huge shortfall on the support and procurement side.
Enjoy your empty bins and traffic jams I guess, that sure showed those lazy ass public servants!