There has been a significant increase in workplace attendance amongst civil servants in Somalia.
Latest figures show that they have increased workplace attendance by as much as 26 percent.
The increase comes in the wake of a recent directive by Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre to Director-Generals of all the federal government ministries.
He had asked the DGs to address the problem of absenteeism among civil servants.
A recent survey by the Public Sector Employees Committee shows that the DGs have done their work well enough to warrant a rise in attendance.
Late last year, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addressed this issue when he said that the problem of ghost or absentee workers within the civil service had become a pandemic.
He added that many of the workers earned salaries despite never turning up for work.
According to President Mohamud, many civil servants were nowhere in the country but continued earning an income from the government.