How far away is this outdoor office?
As cable length has a significant impact as well as the load (Amps/Watts), upon selecting the correct cable size to meet the volt drop requirement of regs 525.1 to 525.203?
My gut feeling is as you say that 2x 6.0mm would have been a much better solution..
and a single 6.0mm could be pushing things a bit, unless the cable length is just a relatively short run?
If you are doing a house renovation without any written work schedule specifications then you may well have shot yourself in the foot... Whereas as ProDave said.. if the work was not done to the correct original specification then it should be rectified at no further cost to you!
I've been self employed for over 25years..
And I have come across loads of builders who claim to know "how to do electrics"..
But so far I have never actually seen one that does...!
I have however done numerous remedial jobs, rectifying builder ****-ups!
Some builders may know how to join two cables together; Live to Live, Neutral to Neutral, Earth to Earth. And are Ok at digging trenches to lay cables into.. Other than that they are generally out of their depth with anything electrical and should never be trusted!
Builders are normally good at mixing mortar and sticking bricks together to build walls.. Cutting timbers to make floors and stud-walls.. Leaving holes for windows & doors.. Drinking Tea and eating bacon sandwiches... Putting Acrow props in place ready for fitting an RSJ etc... BUT never trust them with cables OR pipes!!
As Binky said a 6.0mm cable is good for carrying 40amps.. but if the cable gets too long volt drop becomes a problem..
Plus considerations about what loads are actually in use simultaneously needs to be evaluated..
A 40amp load over 6.0mm cable supplying both sockets and lights would need to meet the 6.9v (3%) volt drop..
Which would start to exceed the 3% once you get to around 24meters in length.
e.g.
6.0mm CSA cable is 7.3mv/A/m.. and (7.3x40x24)/1000 = 7.01volts!
If just running 32A you start having trouble at 30m (7.3x32x30)/1000 = 7.01v
Or if your electrician was suggesting 20A, then maybe you cable is more like 47m long?
(7.3x20x47)/1000 = 6.86volts.. which is within the 3% 6.9v limit.
Basically we need a bit more information about the installation to comment on what potential problems you may or may not have!