That's a difference I observed (in France) between the private and public sector. In several administration, public workers have a reputation of being lazy beca

That's a difference I observed (in France) between the private and public sector. In several administration, public workers have a reputation of being lazy because they don't always have work to do. They are on demand, and work on projects as appropriate. That's what a well-funded public task force looks like. In such a case, a manager would look at the schedule, reserve the time necessary for this dev, take into account the other missions of the devs and get it done.