2023-06-02 01:22:13
The total figure already exceeds 55,000 public workers and since November there has been a noticeable increase of 10,000 more civil servants.
More than 55,000 employees of the General State Administration (AGE) already benefit from teleworking. Is that One in every four of the nearly 220,000 public workers in the AGE carry out their work from home at least two days a week.
The latest remote work monitoring report, which is published monthly by the Secretary of State for Public Service in the Transparency Portal, evidences this. And in that same document it is observed that the figure has been growing significantly in recent months. For example, between the publication related to November and the last one, which refers to May, there has been a an increase of more than 10,000 troops. Teleworking was a recurring demand from civil servants, especially after the pandemic, and when they have achieved it, the data shows that they have remarkably embraced this option.
The report also gives details such as the duration of teleworking, the distribution by gender or the tasks that are performed. Thus, almost 35,000 officials go to work in person three days a week; slightly more than 14,000 do it for only two days; and slightly more than 6,000 public workers take advantage of the exceptional modality, which supposes a provision of face-to-face services of at least 10%, aimed at attending to special organizational circumstances.
In addition, there are more women than men who telework: 32,150 female employees for 23,000 male workers. And most of them are civil servants who carry out administrative support tasks and management personnel, which seems logical given that it is the area in which the greatest number of employees are concentrated.
All these civil servants, however, have access to remote work within the framework of the AGE’s energy saving and efficiency plan. That is to say, as a way of being more efficient, which is the path that the Government forced to respond to the pressures and demands of officials, and not because a teleworking regulation so decrees. This item was included in the Civil Service Law that has declined.
The electoral advance decreed by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has meant that the norm, which was already in Congress in the period of amendments, does not go ahead. And it is in that text that teleworking itself was regulated. For practical purposes, the result is the same or very similar, but if the savings plan is withdrawn, so will teleworking, while by law it would already be fully established.
The draft stated that, initially, you would have the right to telework one day a week, a period that could later be extended to two days. Furthermore, the text should be the reference not only for the AGE but also for the entire administrationthat is, also for the communities -which is where the bulk of the officials are- and the town halls.
All this is now paralyzed, and what will be maintained, as confirmed by the Public Service, are the possible agreements that have been reached in each area as well as the measures included in the savings plan. And they are also paralyzed, for example, performance evaluations that, if positive, would offer public workers complementary remuneration.
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