Has the Scottish Executive taken leave of it's senses?

I ask because ChrisD on politicalbetting.com highlighted this article on the BBC.

It appears that the Scottish Executive decided to move Transport for Scotland from Edinburgh to Glasgow.

Well, OK. They have done so for social and economic reasons.

I presume that means that it will end up costing less whilst providing employment in Glasgow. Fair enough so far.

That is until you read the bonkers small print, or in the case of the BBC article most of the story.

Of the 150 people relocated 57 of them appear to get their travel expenses paid but what is more presumably the same people, possibly more or less, get to start work on their commute.

It seems that as soon as they start catching up on "paper work" on the train, they are in the office. Obviously they can leave early as well to make sure they get enough time to catch up on their way home.

Thing is most commuters who need to already have to do this, do so, but start their commute to get in on time.

The train is not a secure place to do confidential work either. However if they can work on the train, why not forget coming into the office at all and work from home? After all with technology as it is today (I know, I set this sort of thing up every day) why travel when you don't have to.

Also the payments for people to stay put draw into question two key issues. The economic and social benefits of the move. There is little economic or social benefit to have an office commute in and out of a given area. It just costs more. If on the other hand they got all the employees to move, then yes that would or rather could have both economic and social benefits.