Global Energy Crisis: Public Sector WFH Policy To Save Fuel – Fahmi

PUTRAJAYA, April 8 (Bernama) -- The implementation of a Work From Home (WFH) policy for civil servants starting next Wednesday is aimed at ensuring more efficient fuel usage, while also reducing the government’s operating costs, said Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil.

Fahmi, who is also the MADANI Government spokesman, said the main objective of the WFH policy is to achieve fuel savings among civil servants, particularly as the country faces challenges from the global energy crisis.

He said the WFH implementation will not involve certain sectors such as education, security and healthcare, as well as other sectors that will be granted exemptions to be determined by Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar and Public Service director-general Tan Sri Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz.

“For the communications sector, for example, we leave it to the heads of department to assess, as long as core functions are not affected. We know that to communicate with the general public, we can now ‘work from handphone’.

“So I believe that during this WFH period, colleagues — especially those from the Information Department and several others — can still function wherever they are,” he said at a briefing on the global energy crisis and a weekly press conference here today.

On April 1, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the Cabinet had agreed to implement the WFH policy involving ministries, agencies, statutory bodies and government-linked companies starting April 15.

-- BERNAMA