How do you lose a laptop at home?

Civil service wages must be too high. I mean, their houses are huge!

More like this.

Anyway, amongst all the stats, why doesnt the DM also tell us that about 67,500 people work for HMRC all over the place instead of quoting Jacob Reese Mogg and going on about Grade II listed buildings in Westminster?

Suspect a few will be stolen from cars or on public transport, muggings etc, plus a few damaged by spilling a brew on them or similar but they dont want to admit that so bin them. Plus, people leaving and not handing them back, devices left in cupboards/desks/server rooms and not accounted for.

Plus its over 6750 staff and covers three years.

DM Comments are hilarious, someone suggesting they are being stolen and sold, that would be an edge case having a job with HMRC and being that desperate for a laptop, maybe in the past when they were very expensive devices but they are ten a penny now, who wants to lose their job over a crappy, usually basic work laptop ? Someone suggested they are being given to family as Christmas Presents, nothing like a locked down government laptop that says thoughtful gift.

Well, if you want a nice shiny Apple Mac.. And work let you have one but you can't use it for personal purposes.............

Free food & drink no doubt.

It doesn't appear to be from a taxpayer perspective though.

How?

- Well start with employing 67,500 people

- Next give every single one of them a laptop so you have 67,500 laptops in use (HMRC policy is no desktops unless for very specialised use).

- Next tell every single one of them to take the laptop home 'just in case' so 67,500 are being transported around on buses and trains every day.

- Next pay the minimum wage to 1/3 of those staff so many are living in shared houses or homes of multiple occupation.

- And then perhaps you will lose 0.16% of them a year.

I wonder if the Daily Mail loses more than 0.16% of laptops a year?

Best they come into the office so their manager can keep an eye on their laptops.

That’s the thing with laptops, they are portable and when you can take things out with you or easily move them around it increases the risk of losing them or them getting stolen.

It’s just a clickbait story from a comedy news outlet who like to get their reader base wound up over nothing.

What is it with dome people who always seem to be on the right wing side of politics who despise people working from home?

Or perhaps the drop in performance has something to do with cutting the number of staff by 10%, and reducing pay so that everyone answering the phone or replying to post is paid less than the till operator at your supermarket.