Mr. Chair, I just want to add a brief word to the comments made by the President of the Treasury Board.
We want to build a more effective workforce based on the government's agenda and priorities. We'll get there with the people in the office and senior executives who will be there five days a week. To create a better work environment, it's better if employees have their own space to work. The teams prefer to work together while having an unshared office, desk, etc.
The change we're making is that we're going to assigned seating, to the extent we can, so that teams can be together: Workforces are more productive that way. We have done some consultation. There are going to be some spaces across the public service, when there was not enough space to do that initially, and it will evolve.
The objective is five days a week for executives, starting this week. That is no problem. Four days is the intention, starting in July, for non-executives. To the extent we can get to more assigned seating, we will do that. However, that will take some time, and it will vary by minister or by department because there was growth across the public service that was not supported by real property additions.