This year, taxpayers paid public servants for over 167,000 days that they weren’t even at work, excluding the four weeks that they are legally entitled to and public holidays. This equates to more than 457 years.
We struggle to believe that public servants are working so much harder than the non-government workers who pay their salaries that they need all this additional time off.”
The "worst offenders" and the entities that declined to provide a response should not surprise.