New figures obtained by Guido’s FOI Unit show that HMRC’s flagship Whitehall headquarters at 100 Parliament Street is barely a fifth full on working Fridays. This is despite an insistence that staff spend at least 60% of their time in the office…
The data covers every working day from April 2025 to March 2026. Over that period Friday attendance ran around 43% below the Monday to Thursday average of 358. The best Friday of the entire year, 25 April 2025, managed 264 which is still below the average Monday…
HMRC switched its capacity from 516 desks to 391 in 2025. Fridays got even emptier afterwards…
At the reduced 391 capacity, Monday to Thursday attendance averaged 89% compared to 50% on Friday. Taxman sticking his feet up, doing his laundry…
In its response HMRC insists “We expect all office-based colleagues to spend at least 60% of their working time in an HMRC office” and that hybrid working helps it “attract and retain the talent we need to deliver for our customers.” Four-day week approaching…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”