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Ottawa Wants More Desks Filled, and Your Real Card Can Stay In Its Lane.
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Ottawa Wants More Desks Filled
Thousands of federal public servants started a four-day office week on Monday, although Ottawa appears to have hit the small snag where offices need desks.
The Treasury Board plan makes most employees work onsite just four days a week as of July 6, after executives moved to five days in May. Canadian Press reported that space shortages are already slowing the change in some departments, though. IRCC said most staff will stay at three days a week until it finds enough room.
Ottawa says more in-person work will help collaboration and service delivery.
The first test might be whether the desks exist.
Read more: CityNews Halifax / Government of Canada
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Your Real Card Can Stay In Its Lane
MoneySense has a useful reminder for anyone paying Canadian bills from another time zone. Your physical credit card number does not need to go everywhere with you.
Virtual cards create temporary or merchant-specific numbers tied to your real account. Digital wallets use tokenized card details, so the number stored in Apple Pay or Google Wallet is not the same number as the one printed on the card. If a merchant gets breached, the damage can be smaller and easier to contain.
Virtual cards can, of course be a little awkward for flights, hotels, rental cars, and other bookings where the card may need to be shown later. That’s very much an expat problem.
For subscriptions, online shopping, and one-off Canadian payments, though, a disposable number earns its keep pretty quickly - check it out.
Read more: MoneySense