Be lean but mean in the delivery of service


I REFER to the report “No extended lunch breaks, Duterte warns” (The Star, July 18) on the new Philippines president reminding his civil servants they are paid salaries from taxpayers’ money to work eight hours a day and that those who had the habit of extending their lunch breaks would face dismissal.

To quote him: “The rationale of our job is, we are paid by the people to work eight hours a day – so if you refuse the people, you are not in your office... after lunch break you are in the malls, walking around... if that happens again, I will dismiss you.”

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