According to Whitehall sources, ministers are quietly ditching the three-day office rule for civil servants, with no appetite to crack down on the work-from-home brigade. As Labour schemes to hand out even more flexible working rights, ministers are taking a “less dogmatic” line on dragging the pen pushers back to their desks…

Meanwhile, Labour is still keeping shtum on just how many civil servants are actually bothering to turn up, refusing to publish the numbers, as Guido first revealed. This is despite one study showing home workers are about 10% less productive. Last year, a whopping 40% of Whitehall’s public sector staff were still shirking from home. With Labour refusing to publish the stats, expect that number to be even worse…