The Telegraph reports that civil servants (including HMRC) have been faking their attendance at the office.
Some staff, including at HMRC, are alleged to have faked in-person working by connecting to their office Wi-Fi from a nearby car park before returning home.
The phenomenon has become so commonplace that senior managers at the tax office dub it a “drive-by login”.
Just under 4,000 HMRC staff haven't been in the office at all for over 6 months. Just under 1,000 haven't been in for over a YEAR.
An HMRC official told of how office working had collapsed during the Covid-19 pandemic and has not recovered since.
He said “a lot of bad habits” were formed during Covid, adding: “You can go years at a time without seeing certain colleagues.”
Analysis of working patterns at HMRC revealed that 3,195 of its workers had not been in an office for between six and 11 months, with 992 not attending for a year to 23 months. There were 182 workers who did not go to work in-person for two years or more.
HMRC said some of the absences were caused by sickness leave or an adjustment to working patterns for staff with disabilities. The department employs more than 70,500 people.
HMRC has also been accused of allowing customer service levels to collapse. Last year, a report by MPs found that almost 44,000 taxpayers were cut off after being on hold for over an hour with HMRC call handlers.
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Bad habits were formed during Covid? That was more than 6 years ago. The time for excuses is over. HMRC management haven't got a grip because they don't want to get a fucking grip. They're essentially facilitating misuse of our tax money.
ReplyDeleteThe 'drive by login' tactic is plain and simple fraud. Internal Governance aren't doing their job. Its taking public members - like us - to expose their grubby secrets.
If any staff would like to share their stories of corrupt colleagues, we would be more than willing to investigate and expose them!!
Taxpayers deserve better!!! We'll help them fight to get it!!!
Keep going. The powerful don't want the truth to be told 💪
DeleteThe discipline process was given to the HR ‘Expert Advice Service’ about a decade ago. Absolute disaster. Their ‘Expert’ approach is to avoid wrongful dismissal claims by advising against dismissing anybody.
DeleteBe very careful. The above poster is an HMRC plant trying to get dissident colleagues to expose their identities.
ReplyDeleteWhat is an "HMRC plant"?
DeleteYou really shouldn't be spouting defamatory misstatements.
You're very desperate to maintain the status quo whereby misconduct goes unchecked. People will wonder as to your motives...
Now, leave the grownups to expose wrongdoing and go away and have your fun with online trolling
@16:14.
DeleteAnd yet you can't quote a single, solitary example of corruption within HMRC that you've exposed.
You've been rumbled matey.
Senior manager is just a PhD in Bullshittery, professional zoom meeting attendance with aggressive forwarding of emails which involves the buzz phrase of the week.
ReplyDeleteThese Muppets are not exactly Oceans 11. Some random over promoted Karen sat on her arse in Wetherspoons before popping down to the Trafford Centre to grab a bargain
John The Plumber will be sympathetic when he's waiting 12 months for his refund.
Close every office for all I care and save the long suffering taxpayer the heating bill.
The Clock IS Ticking HMRC
ReplyDeletehttps://committees.parliament.uk/work/9766/hmrcs-antifraud-intervention-on-child-benefit/
A very insightful video from the superb Jacob Rees-Mogg calling out idle HMRC employees and the working from home scam. He makes the case about how these layabouts are harming our economic welfare while we have to pay for them.
ReplyDeleteThursday was an excellent day for British democracy with Reform receiving the popular support across the country. Britain needs a common sense government who will deal with casual fraud such as this.
Well worth watching:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCQnneL-y0