Over a Thousand HMRC Staff Now Working Four Day Weeks – Guido Fawkes

Over a Thousand HMRC Staff Now Working Four Day Weeks

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Last week Guido uncovered that UK tax overlords over at HMRC have lost 389 taxpayer-funded phones in the past year along with 127 laptops. Slippery fingers…

As it turns out there may be a reason the taxman no longer bothers picking up the phone – last year 44,000 customers got cut off with no warning after sitting on hold for over an hour. Last month a whopping 1,521 HMRC staff were working on compressed hours four day weeks – up from 1,311 at the time of the election. Something for tax minister James Murray to work on in his reforms…

So far that takes the gold medal across the Civil Service as departments across the board up the number of workers taking a day off. While Starmer goes on about an agile state it’s feet up…