For years, Boomers said, ‘you can afford a house if you stop drinking coffee and eating smashed avocados’. Now Boomers cry, “Back to work and drink coffee and eat smashed avocados to save Downtown”.
Make up your mind.
Isn’t the State directing you how to work socialism?
How can the Government tell workers who have WFH flexibility in their contracts to now go back to the Office to save the Wellington CBD from the meltdown they’ve caused by sacking 5000 public servants in Wellington?
This is a bloody joke looking for a punchline.
The PSA have been damning in their assessment of these Working From Home clawbacks saying, “If the Government really cared about the Wellington economy, then it shouldn’t have cut thousands of hard working, dedicated public service workers from its payroll,”.
EXACTLY!
The latest Shaping Business Study by 2Degrees finds majority (51%) saying Working From Home has increased productivity and more than a third (37%) say it helps to recruit and retain staff – with so many Kiwis leaving NZ for Australian jobs, isn’t Working From Home one of the few perks we can offer?
How is Return to the Office to anyone’s benefit other than Commercial Real Estate?
If this Government had not sacked 6500 public servants, including plans to cut thousands more, we wouldn’t see this kind of break down in the CBD.
We need to rethink the whole situation.
We need more downtown apartments and accomodation to support these spaces and we need more work from home, not less of it!
We also need a 4 day week.
We can’t compete with the wages of Australia, so make the working conditions better!
This Government’s short sighted slash and burn campaign was always going to have consequences, blaming people for working from home when it’s their ideological purification that’s caused the problem is an audacity only the Political Right have the smugness to attempt.
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Jesus even Luxon on one news earlier in the week admitted this all is a sign of a” poorly performing economy .” He said he was going to get us back on track ,well clearly his GPS has sent down the wrong track as day after day we see blunder after blunder .The latest is the track to closing the building and construction industries down to nothing .No new state houses to be built ,no more new hospitals to be built .no new ports to be built to allow improved freight movement across cook straight .No wonder the economy is performing poorly with even worse to come .Another large business is about to announce the loss of 600 jobs today and the closing of two wood production sites last week is having a massive knock on in the rail and port at Napier .Along with all continuing job losses will come a smaller tax take so even more projects will be lost .What a useless government we have .Everyone with half a brain knows you need to spend money to make money .Surely Luxon knows he would not have sold A single box of washing powder had Unilever not invested millions into marketing ,which = spending to make money .
Results of Willis and Luxon tightening the country’s belts, yet $2.9 Billion Tax Cuts for Landlords ???
Anyone figure why we don’t have any $$$’s for Infrastructure, Hospitals, GP’s etc, etc…
This government is the worst in my 60 years experience and it is only your ignorance that prevents you from recognizing that.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/primary-school-principal-responds-to-school-attendance-teacher-only-day-crackdown/BDQ3JQIMLVEDNNP4UFI3CR6QME/
The dictatorship Government continues. Mr 7% wags the dog and spends millions on private charter schools as now many teachers see their careers overseas.
You know I ran an International Airline don’t you ….. ???
And I have years of International Business Experience !!!!
The amount of crap this coalition government speaks is bewildering. They keep saying things are tough like they are not the ones causing a large part of it. If things were that f’ing bad they should be thrown out for giving tax cuts in the first place. Nicola Wills had a go at the banks for acting exactly how she and all her mates would.
Labour increased the public service staff by ~18000 / 40% in 6 years, including thousands in the months before the 2023 election as they attempted to embed their acolytes – with no significant improvement in services.
The so far token reductions this year & WFH are not the reason for Wgtn decline. Its the decade+ of Green / Left council incompetence.
National killed off Wellington during the Key years. It’s what right wing governments do, promote low wage economies like English did and there is no disposable income to spend.
Right wing Incompetence.
The fact that so many are still ‘working’ from home (ie mowing the lawn and walking the dog) tells me that the civil service needs more cuts.
And they need to axe your benefit Andrew.
The country was on track under Labour. The economy was booming.
Very low unemployment in fact business were crying out for workers.
The country had been rescued by the covid queen Jacinda Adern.
The right wing were so “off track” they faced oblivion.
National was humiliated in 2020 and by 2023 was in total vegnence mode.
Appealing to base White prejudice and ignorance the right wing reverted back to Muldoons fear politics 1975 (The dancing Cossacks). Except this time deep seated white pejudice toward Maori was again invoked to ensure the right wing victory.
Now the right wing is spitefully reeking revenge on any thing left wing attacking Maori, immigrants, media, Womens organisations, Green policies ,Gay groups, and education.
Fast tracking mining, rewarding gas guzzling car owners, rewarding methane emissions.
Creating a large pool of unemployed will lower pay rates, make for an easily exploited work force and company profits will rise. Right wing White male businessmen laughing all the way to the bank.
The Government slashes jobs then blames those sacked for being out of work.
Its Ruth Richardson 1990’s all over again.
Right wing vengence politics on steroids.
Vengence, power and hate define the right wing.
It has always been their calling card.
Oh please. Do you just cut and paste the same comment every day? Stop letting the government live rent free in your head. Make your own decisions a d life. Stop being such a baby.
Aren’t people over sodding expensive coffee yet? The Service sector has no intrinsic right to an income in any circumstance–and by jeezus the Natzos have done their best to reduce the number of potential customers in just a few months of sackings and austerity slashing.
This is another story, but I was last in Wellington in 2018 and the CBD looked sad indeed back then. Empty shops, shops with low stock, frontages needing a water blast and paint job, sad arses shuffling about rather than young thrusters in trench coats…Manners Mall was rusted, my son was even disappointed by Cuba St which he imagined to be like San Fran or something.
This CoC lot need to be removed asap because they are making a city in trouble even worse.
The poor cant fall any further than they have .But the rich pricks are in for a massive crash landing under this government .They think they are insulated because they have a mountain of money ,but a massive earth quake is about to take down that mountain and Willis will be still sitting with her feet up till the next election ,however it may well be a crapper she will be sitting on as she will be shitting bricks by then .
We are now officially North Korea..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/education/david-seymour-urges-students-to-skip-climate-strike-to-avoid-absence-penalties/QQHLRFKTBBEONK6ZPTB7GNZ4IU/
“We can’t compete with the wages of Australia, so make the working conditions better!”
If unions were stronger wages would be higher.
If wages were higher business would invest more capital per worker and productivity would be higher.
If the country stopped importing cheap labour for growth, growth would have to come from better productivity.
If productivity is higher wages are higher.
We compare ourselves to the lucky country which is just a continent sized lump of pay dirt but surely NZ can come up with a viable economic plan to stop it’s slow decent to the third world.
Why blame us boomers. These kids in Govt aren’t old enough to be boomers. That’s why they have no common sense.
Yeah why? No doubt some boomers have wealth but the idea that baby boomers own or manipulate the system yeah nah. There are thousands of boomers who have worked and rented all their lives. There are thousands of boomers in old age poverty. Boomers may have had easy terms State Advances house loans and near free tertiary education, so what! Any government could do that today.
Chloe’s OK Boomer message is divisive and alienating. If you want a politics in the interests of all the people then blindly following market research segmentationism doesn’t help. If a political party tweaks their advertising appeals to different segments doesn’t that set up different group expections which can’t all be fulfilled?
Why pit Boomer v Slacker v Z v Millennial? Grand parents want what’s good for grandkids and vice versa.
SO TRUE .I currently have 3 grand kids living with me 75% of the time .So though I may be retired I am not as there is the school run along with transport to out of school activities .All of this cost is on top of my normal house running cost along with food for 3 kids two of which are teens .So the folk that see the boomers that go on yearly over seas holidays and living in the million dollar mansion remember there are the other 75% like myself that are now parents to grandkids .As we can see by the current lot in government the parents of those grandkids are too busy being entitled .But then as in my case the mum is working in the decaying health system attempting to deliver an ever decreasing health service .
Eggzachary, but then there is Winnie!
Thought that exactly. The decision makers are not boomers.
‘It’s not about frickin’ targets, it’s about outcomes’. Who said that?
If the outcome is the mahi is done and workers are happy what is wrong with them working from home? (or from their workplaces, boats,vehicles, beachside bachs hotel rooms long drop toilets, beaches, parks, forests mountains?)
Considering that this government wants to take jobs away from people, could they not leave those still employed contented with the little they have?
This is the government of “ NO Structure”, no jobs,no hospitals,no houses, no ferries the list goes on . With Dunedin however they have crossed a line from which they will never recover. They are simply untrustworthy and the front line of government should all be called back to parliament ( not go on holiday) to explain themselves to the public of Aotearoa
Willis addressed the PSA by stating that public servants must remain politically neutral. Which is akin to saying public servants should not vote.
Heil Hitler Heir Willis.
It’s not even remotely akin. Jeez. I come to this site to visit the special people.
The best way to get a vibrant CBD is to have people actually living there, commuting in and out every day is a waste of time, energy and money. But then the likes of Nicola Willis are good at truly ‘wasteful spending’.
100% agree all those selfish must drive every where people need to move closer to their jobs or catch public transport .I know a woman who drives from whangaparoa to mt wellington to work .She rents so could easily rent around mt wellington and walk to work .Better health and more money in the pocket WIN WIN
I’m not sure how forcing Government office workers to travel to work, and pay for extra child cover for their longer working days, will help reduce their cost of living. Perhaps the Government simply wants to drive even more ex-staff to Australia without having to pay redundancies.
You missed the point, Martyn. It’s about NZ’s low productivity- remember? The ‘low productivity’ narrative, along with the ‘reset’ narrative and all the other bullshit narratives from a Government of liars. How else can you justify the unjustifiable.
YEP THE BACK ON TRACK RACE TO THE BOTTOM NARRATIVE
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