When pressed by Bloc Québécois MP Marie-Hélène Gaudreau for the reason for announcing the controversial four-day in-office directive, Matthews insisted it was based off a belief, not evidence.

Data on labour productivity, collected by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) from Statistics Canada, show a 4.5 per cent growth in productivity between 2019 and 2023 within the federal government.

we found little evidence for the effects of monitoring and monitoring characteristics on performance behaviors. These null findings deviate from the conventional wisdom that EPM increases motivation to perform