Like it's (a) news; and (b) interesting.
Today, mouthbreathers at the Reformigraph (previously known as The Torygraph) was shocked to hear that GLD:
The Government Legal Department (GLD) has purchased thousands of remote working devices for its staff since 2021, including 560 mobile phones, 2,135 new laptops and 10 tablet computers, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
GLD has 2500 staff, they also report. So a business with 2500 staff bought fewer than 2500 laptops in a 4 year period.
The civil service is mostly hotdesking. And doesn't have desktop computers, nor desk phones. Like everywhere.
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I would guess those 10 tablets are for meeting rooms
and 4 years is pretty much the average laptop replacement cycle
I guess this is meant to be a government waste story ?
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I think the telegraph thinks Laptop = home worker = outrageous.
Does any firm still have desktop computers?
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A m7 of mine, Dave, specialised in IT consultancy. He spends his life setting up consultanvies to the NHS, selling them to the NHS, working out his trapped in period and then doing the same again. He is well $$$
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Yes they should be buying lots of old fashioned desktops so staff are forced into the office.
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The telegraph is responsible for a lot of the radicalisation of The Sensibles. They’ve filled the vacuum created by the Mail going full mask off.
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Celia Richardson, Director of Communications at the National Trust, was posting some interesting stuff over the weekend about their response to the onslaught of Telegraph & other RW disinformation. The Mushroom story was inaccurately reported in every press piece I saw it in including the Graun originally.
"The way it works is this: The Telegraph has an establishment figure write an opinion piece. Because it’s an opinion piece they don’t have to fact check any claims with our press office. So inaccurate claims get printed. Then the article’s used as a primary source by other papers."
"Real problems arise for institutions when big broadcasters then use inaccurate Telegraph articles as primary source without fact-checking. Comms people, watch for this. I’ve had to kindly request the binning of a major political package on BBCR4 Today, created entirely this way"
https://x.com/CeliaRichards0n/status/1771824678698410230?s=20
"Am giving a talk tomorrow to fellow communications people. About managing organised reputational attacks. The comms team’s most important job is to help their organisations remain open, sincere, and their best selves. Many institutions are doing this very well, in tough times."
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Private Eye often has stories about newspapers frothing about working from home while keeping most of their journos and staff away from the office.
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