{"id":627505,"date":"2026-04-25T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627505\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:13:12","slug":"global-affairs-staff-exempt-from-return-to-office-order-due-to-lack-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627505\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Affairs staff exempt from return-to-office order due to lack of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Most employees working at Global Affairs Canada won\u2019t have to return to the office four days a week this summer due to a lack of space.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Board announced earlier this year that public service executives will have to work on-site five days per week starting May 4, and all other federal employees must be in the office four days a week as of July 6.<\/p>\n<p>But Global Affairs Canada says it\u2019s undertaking a multi-year renovation project that is affecting the availability of office space.<\/p>\n<p>The department says until there is enough workspace available, the four-days a week requirement will start being phased in for some managers and deputy directors in July.<\/p>\n<p>But all other Global Affairs employees based in the National Capital Region and in regional offices across Canada, will still be required to be on-site just three days per week.<\/p>\n<p>All Global Affairs executive staff will be required to work on site five days per week as of May 4.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Most employees working at Global Affairs Canada won\u2019t have to return to the office four days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-627505","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\/627505","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=627505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}