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There is a law on the evaluation of civil servants, but most of the time it is not implemented. Reluctance, slow pace and constant resistance to it are the main reasons. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u2019 statement in Parliament on Wednesday showed the permanent problem: \u201cEvaluation in the civil service will be institutionally and constitutionally guaranteed,\u201d he said, adding that civil servants will also be evaluated \u201cby the citizens who will use the services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thus, the government vision has now been enriched with our own presence. For what? After all, one day we\u2019ll wake up and the issue will be resolved, one way or another.<\/p>\n
A little patience and the subject of evaluation will disappear. In 15-20 years, there will be fewer than 100 professions. \u201cPeople will start to think seriously about our reason for existence,\u201d Danilo McGarry, chief AI and transformation officer at Ective, told participants at the EmTech Europe 2025 conference last week. What did the expert say? That evaluated professions will simply not exist, the organization of services will be done with artificial intelligence systems that \u201cwill be able to learn and evolve on their own.\u201d Obviously, they will (self)evaluate themselves and if they are found lacking, they will be withdrawn.<\/p>\n
One cannot accurately describe the future. Imagination helps literature, but laws, politicians, parliaments are needed to shape the everyday lives of citizens. And if alternatives emerge even for them? How long can one delay those changes?<\/p>\n
But before we start flirting with some kind of expected chaos, before we surrender to humanoid machines, maybe we should improve our performance a little. We have 550,000 civil servants in Greece, not including contract workers. Together with their families, they make up the basic fabric of society. \u201cWho will clash with this electorate? It\u2019s like asking the political system to mutilate itself,\u201d Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, public administration expert and consultant for state examiner ASEP, has told Kathimerini.<\/p>\n
We are so late as a country in building a functioning, modern state that if we do not hurry, even in the final stretch, to gain a few steps, we risk losing the reason for any evaluation. We will, whether we like it or not, be thrown into a future that we will not be able to define nor need to define because, quite simply, it will not include us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n