Follow Reagan, Boris... and sack WFH shirkers

Your front-page report last week about the Whitehall ‘blob’ insisting on working from home for ever gives Boris Johnson an excellent opportunity to show the country he deserves to be Prime Minister. As President Reagan did many years ago with the American air traffic controllers, Boris should simply sack the lot of them.

Robert Bishop, Billingshurst, West Sussex

It is somewhat disgraceful that civil servants do not want to stop their ‘unofficial holiday’, aka working from home.

As thousands of NHS, transport workers and shop workers have continued to provide an excellent service, these privileged lot have sat at home for well over a year.

Grow a backbone, go back to work, and do what you get so well paid for.

John Roberts, Bradford

Working from home is the way forward. All of the myths about not being productive at home have been thoroughly debunked, and society will just have to get used to the fact that we will not be returning to an office to do our jobs when we can do them just as well at home.

B. Scott, Birmingham

Why is it that a large number of civil servants are still working from home when they have been instructed to attend the office? What makes them the exception to the rule? Are they a special breed so superior to us mere worker ants? I wish they would tell us.

Mike Elford, Canvey Island, Essex

Anyone who has been working from home and is paid London weighting should be made to pay it back. Those demanding to continue working from home on a permanent basis should lose this payment, and those who will be in the office on a part-week basis should qualify only for the days in the office.

It’s a disgrace that this allowance has been allowed to continue during the pandemic.

Nora Kent, Windsor

Any civil servant relocating to the countryside and refusing to head back to the office should think about the long-term consequences of permanently working from home. As spending on transport and consumables in our cities decline, so does the amount of taxes, which are used to fund their public-sector jobs. The Government will eventually need to recoup any losses.

D. Ratcliffe, Greater Manchester

If a job is doable from home, then I really don’t see the problem. It keeps the rush-hour traffic down as well, which is great for those of us who can’t work from home.

A. Young, Plymouth