Plan for 20% remote working in civil service published

The 54-page document has been eagerly awaited by civil servants

Michael McGrath, the Minister for Public Expenditure. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Michael McGrath, the Minister for Public Expenditure, has given the go ahead for most of the country’s 40,000 civil servants to work at least one day per week remotely.

He has also suggested that this minimum remote working allowance of 20 per cent may rise further in the future when the newly published “blended working policy framework” is reviewed.

This 54-page document has been eagerly awaited by civil servants who, like private sector workers, have ...