seven separate agencies have said they won’t follow in treasury board’s footsteps in updating their remote work policies, with some indicating they already required significant in-office presence. they include the canadian energy regulator, canadian security intelligence service, financial consumer agency of canada (fcac), national capital commission, national film board, national security and intelligence review agency secretariat (nsira) and office of the intelligence commissioner.
justin dubois, a spokesperson for the office of the intelligence commissioner, said the small, eight- to 10-person team working at the organization mostly worked with classified materials “almost exclusively” from the office, so treasury board’s announcement didn’t affect how it operated.
spokespeople from fcac, csis and the nsira also indicated that their organizations already required regular in-office presence.
ally taylor, a spokesperson for the canadian energy regulator, said that organization was not considering changes or updates to its remote work policies, which allow staff to stay home up to three days a week, but wanted to ensure “general alignment with the policy intent of the federal government.”