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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Agreed. There is a balance to be found.
At the moment, Government workers often have pretty terrible work environments. I've heard so many horror stories from my wife and friends about the lack of washrooms, board rooms, break rooms, functional kitchen areas. I work at a not-for-profit and our facilities are a little more than adequate, but when I've had Federal worker friends and family visit, they are in awe of our basic amenities (and free coffee).
No wonder a lot of Federal workers are depressed and/or not motivated to work or go to the office, and that's beside the Phoenix debacle and the recent Canada Life issues, but that's another topic.
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I have always found the "free coffee" thing weird in the public sector. There is a fear of spending money on coffee. Weird schemes where they collect money from employees into coffee funds and administer that. The attitude in the private sector is more of, "why are we paying staff salaries to spend time running a coffee fund, when it costs less to just buy the coffee".
Getting back to work-space. I don't know. The "old school" environments where you still have enclosed offices are nice, but they look dated. The new modern with bench seating looks trendy, modern actually quite nice. I get the impression it is form over function. Old fashion cubicles are somewhere between the two ends of the spectrum and I think that is what most people are in (private or public).
While having nice offices helps, I think what makes for grumpy employees goes deeper.