{"id":495429,"date":"2026-02-24T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:15:07","slug":"treasury-board-president-on-4-days-a-week-i-think-well-have-enough-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495429\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury board president on 4 days a week: ‘I think we’ll have enough space’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Treasury Board of Canada president says he believes the federal government will have enough space for when public servants are expected back in the office four days a week starting this summer. <\/p>\n

The statement, made Monday by Shafqat Ali, comes only days after the treasury board suggested the opposite to Radio-Canada. <\/p>\n

In a French-language email last week, the department said “there may not be enough workstations at some locations to meet the four-day work week requirement for all staff starting July 6.” <\/p>\n

On Monday, however, when asked by CBC about the next stage of the government’s return-to-office plan, Ali said, “I think we’ll have enough space.” <\/p>\n

“We’re working with [Public Services and Procurement Canada] and we’ll be working with bargaining agents,” Ali added from the House of Commons foyer. <\/p>\n

“Obviously, we’re not going to put people [in] if we don’t have space. That’s common sense. We’ll be working with those partners to find space for them.”<\/p>\n

Civil servants currently only have to come into the office three days a week \u2014 a rule that was put in place in September 2024 as government employees were for the most part working remotely in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the federal government announced it expects employees who haven’t done so already to return to in-office work for a minimum of four days a week starting this July. <\/p>\n

Government executives will be expected in the office five days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-495429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}