لست متأكداً من أن التحولات الرقمية قد شملت جميع الوزارات والمؤسسات الحكومية بنفس الكمية والنوعية والمدة والوتيرة، ولا أعرف ما إذا كانت فروع الوزارة مواكبة لذات القدر والمستوى من التحولات التي تتبناها الوزارة الأم أم أنها تائهة بين «مشية الغراب ومشية الحمامة».
الغريب أن التجارب المباشرة تكشف أن الخدمات التي تستغرق يومين إلى أسبوع في الوزارة، تستغرق عدة أشهر بين مكاتب الموظفين في الفروع. لا أريد أن أعمم ولا يجوز التعميم، لكن على ما يبدو أن التحول الرقمي أصاب بعض الفروع بالشلل شبه التام رغم توفر رأس المال البشري المؤهل والمدرب.
لا تزال بعض فروع الوزارات مرتبكة في الجمع ما بين الخدمات الرقمية والخدمات غير الرقمية والتكامل في ما بينهما، البعض من الموظفين العاملين في الفروع بحاجة للتدريب والتمكين الرقمي والتدريب على الهيكل التنظيمي الإداري ما بعد زلزال التحول الرقمي، البعض ربما يعاني مشكلة عدم تفويض الصلاحيات الرقمية من قبل مديريهم والمسؤولين الرقميين، وذلك ليتمكنوا من الدخول إلى المنصات الرقمية التابعة لوزارتهم.
الإشكالية الثانية، ربما أنهم مطالبون بعدم التعامل يدوياً وورقياً مع الجمهور، وهي الطريقة التي يجيدونها وتعوّدوا عليها، من هنا يقع الموظف في دوامة وحيرة أمام جمهور المراجعين حضورياً. وهذا ربما التفسير المنطقي لـ«غياب» أو «اختفاء» كثير من العاملين في الفروع عن مكاتبهم، حتى لا يقعوا في حرج أمام جمهور المراجعين الذين لا يفهمون تلك الإشكالية والورطة التي يجد فيها موظفو الفروع أنفسهم بين ما يملك من قدرات وما لا يستطيع من صلاحيات. هناك بُعدٌ آخر للمشكلة يتمثل بأن هؤلاء الموظفين ربما لا يستطيعون أن يصارحوا مديريهم ومسؤوليهم في الفروع أو في الوزارة، وذلك خوفاً من أن يتم تسريحهم والاستغناء عنهم واستبدالهم بموظفين آخرين.
أظن أن الوزارات والمؤسسات المركزية مطالبة بالتعرّف على المشكلات التي يعاني منها الموظفون المعطّلون نتيجة التحول الرقمي، سواء في الوزارات أو الفروع.
كثير من الإجراءات والعمليات اختلفت نتيجة للتحول الرقمي، وهناك مديرون اضطروا أن يعطوا صلاحياتهم لموظفين رقميين في غير إداراتهم الفنية، وهناك الكثير من العاملين الذين لا يعرفون إلى أي إدارة يتبعون بعد الزلزال الرقمي الذي ضرب الهيكل التنظيمي للجهاز الإداري في الفروع وفي المركز.
هذا كله تسبّب بفجوة بين من يملكون الخبرة المهنية ومن يملكون المهارة الرقمية. من هنا تبرز الحاجة لإيجاد هيكلة لإدارة واستثمار رأس المال البشري الذي أخرجه التحول الرقمي عن الخدمة، ليس بتسريحهم والاستغناء عن خدماتهم، بل بتمكينهم من التعايش والتعامل مع طقوس العمل الجديدة ومع الهيكل التنظيمي والإداري الجديد بعقلية ذكية وبروح إنسانية وأخلاقية وفقاً لمصلحة العمل ومستهدفاته.
لا يجوز ترك الموظفين يهيمون على وجوههم تائهين بين خبرة ما قبل التحول ومتاريس العمل الرقمي. من مصلحة الوزارات ألا تضيع البوصلة في الفروع وألا تتسبّب بترك الموظفين مكاتبهم محرجين من مقابلة جمهور المراجعين، حيث لا يملكون أن يخدموهم ولا يستطيعون أن يجيبوا على استفساراتهم.
على الوزارات أن تدرس جيداً السلبيات المترتبة على إغلاق أي فرع من فروع الوزارة في أي منطقة من مناطق المملكة والتبعات الخطيرة على تسريح موظفي الفروع قبل الإقدام على هذه الخطوة التي قد يستسهلها البعض ويراها حلاً اقتصادياً لتقليص التكاليف.
إن تسريح موظفي فروع الوزارات وإغلاق بعض فروع الوزارات في المناطق لتقليص عددها لا يخدم التنمية في شيء، فليس من مصلحة التنمية زيادة نسبة البطالة خاصة في المناطق الطرفية المحتاجة أصلاً لخلق فرص العمل.
عبداللطيف الضويحي
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8 يوليو 2025 - 00:09
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I'm not sure that digital transformations have included all ministries and government institutions to the same extent, quality, duration, and pace, and I don't know if the branches of the ministry are keeping up with the same degree and level of transformations adopted by the parent ministry or if they are lost between "the walk of the crow and the walk of the dove."
Strangely, direct experiences reveal that services that take two days to a week at the ministry take several months between the offices of employees in the branches. I don't want to generalize, and it shouldn't be generalized, but it seems that digital transformation has left some branches nearly paralyzed despite the availability of qualified and trained human capital.
Some branches of the ministries are still confused about how to combine digital services with non-digital services and the integration between them. Some employees working in the branches need training and digital empowerment, as well as training on the administrative organizational structure after the earthquake of digital transformation. Some may suffer from the problem of not having digital powers delegated to them by their managers and digital officials, which prevents them from accessing the digital platforms of their ministries.
The second issue is that they are perhaps required not to deal manually and on paper with the public, which is the method they are skilled at and accustomed to. This puts the employee in a dilemma and confusion in front of the audience of visitors in person. This may be the logical explanation for the "absence" or "disappearance" of many employees in the branches from their offices, so they do not find themselves in an awkward position in front of the public who do not understand the problem and the predicament that branch employees find themselves in between what they are capable of and what powers they do not have. There is another dimension to the problem, which is that these employees may not be able to openly express their concerns to their managers and officials in the branches or in the ministry, out of fear of being dismissed and replaced by other employees.
I believe that ministries and central institutions are required to identify the problems faced by employees who are hindered due to digital transformation, whether in the ministries or the branches.
Many procedures and processes have changed due to digital transformation, and there are managers who have had to delegate their powers to digital employees outside their technical departments. Many employees do not know which department they belong to after the digital earthquake that struck the organizational structure of the administrative apparatus in the branches and at the center.
All of this has caused a gap between those who possess professional experience and those who possess digital skills. Hence, there is a need to create a structure to manage and invest in the human capital that digital transformation has sidelined, not by dismissing them and dispensing with their services, but by empowering them to coexist and deal with the new work rituals and the new organizational and administrative structure with an intelligent mindset and a humane and ethical spirit in accordance with the interests and objectives of the work.
It is unacceptable to leave employees wandering aimlessly between pre-transformation experience and the barricades of digital work. It is in the interest of ministries not to lose their direction in the branches and not to cause employees to leave their offices embarrassed to meet the public of visitors, where they cannot serve them and cannot answer their inquiries.
Ministries must carefully study the negative consequences of closing any branch of the ministry in any area of the Kingdom and the serious repercussions of dismissing branch employees before taking this step, which some may find easy and see as an economic solution to reduce costs.
Dismissing branch employees of ministries and closing some branches in the regions to reduce their number does not serve development in any way; it is not in the interest of development to increase the unemployment rate, especially in peripheral areas that already need to create job opportunities.
Strangely, direct experiences reveal that services that take two days to a week at the ministry take several months between the offices of employees in the branches. I don't want to generalize, and it shouldn't be generalized, but it seems that digital transformation has left some branches nearly paralyzed despite the availability of qualified and trained human capital.
Some branches of the ministries are still confused about how to combine digital services with non-digital services and the integration between them. Some employees working in the branches need training and digital empowerment, as well as training on the administrative organizational structure after the earthquake of digital transformation. Some may suffer from the problem of not having digital powers delegated to them by their managers and digital officials, which prevents them from accessing the digital platforms of their ministries.
The second issue is that they are perhaps required not to deal manually and on paper with the public, which is the method they are skilled at and accustomed to. This puts the employee in a dilemma and confusion in front of the audience of visitors in person. This may be the logical explanation for the "absence" or "disappearance" of many employees in the branches from their offices, so they do not find themselves in an awkward position in front of the public who do not understand the problem and the predicament that branch employees find themselves in between what they are capable of and what powers they do not have. There is another dimension to the problem, which is that these employees may not be able to openly express their concerns to their managers and officials in the branches or in the ministry, out of fear of being dismissed and replaced by other employees.
I believe that ministries and central institutions are required to identify the problems faced by employees who are hindered due to digital transformation, whether in the ministries or the branches.
Many procedures and processes have changed due to digital transformation, and there are managers who have had to delegate their powers to digital employees outside their technical departments. Many employees do not know which department they belong to after the digital earthquake that struck the organizational structure of the administrative apparatus in the branches and at the center.
All of this has caused a gap between those who possess professional experience and those who possess digital skills. Hence, there is a need to create a structure to manage and invest in the human capital that digital transformation has sidelined, not by dismissing them and dispensing with their services, but by empowering them to coexist and deal with the new work rituals and the new organizational and administrative structure with an intelligent mindset and a humane and ethical spirit in accordance with the interests and objectives of the work.
It is unacceptable to leave employees wandering aimlessly between pre-transformation experience and the barricades of digital work. It is in the interest of ministries not to lose their direction in the branches and not to cause employees to leave their offices embarrassed to meet the public of visitors, where they cannot serve them and cannot answer their inquiries.
Ministries must carefully study the negative consequences of closing any branch of the ministry in any area of the Kingdom and the serious repercussions of dismissing branch employees before taking this step, which some may find easy and see as an economic solution to reduce costs.
Dismissing branch employees of ministries and closing some branches in the regions to reduce their number does not serve development in any way; it is not in the interest of development to increase the unemployment rate, especially in peripheral areas that already need to create job opportunities.


