Government plan foresees extension of remote working across public sector

Remote working for civil servants, which has effectively undergone a trial run during the Covid-19 pandemic, could be extended indefinitely after the end of the public lockdown, which the government gradually started easing this week, Kathimerini understands.

A legislative framework currently being drafted by the government foresees the extension of teleworking across the Greek public sector, Kathimerini has learned. But the initiative appears to have been several months in the making, not a response to the pandemic.

Just a few months after coming to power last summer, the conservative administration applied for remote working for civil servants to be inducted into the European Union structural funding program for Greece and subsequently received initial approval for the scheme.

The needs that suddenly arose with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated...