City of D.C. going to 1 day a week telework

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Anonymous wrote:Joining the state of Virginia - all in.

You mean when Bowser was begging the feds to RTO she didn’t even have the city employees back in the office? Ha ha ha ha ha! What a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WH is “encouraging” all federal agencies in the DMV to be back to 50% in-office attendance (5 days per pay period) by next spring. If you work at a federal agency and aren’t yet back to half time in office, it is coming. The goal is for all federal agencies in DC to be back to pre-COVID levels of telework by next fall.

Yea right. Everyone was told the same thing with the Zients memo which turned out to be nothing more than piece of toilet paper. WFH for feds is here to stay.

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Rule for thee but not for me

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Joining the state of Virginia - all in.

You mean when Bowser was begging the feds to RTO she didn’t even have the city employees back in the office? Ha ha ha ha ha! What a moron.

They were supposed to be in the office 2 days a week but many managers were letting people do more. This new edict restricts managers from allowing more than 1 telework day a week on any kind of consistent basis. This is a more restrictive policy than what was in place pre-COVID. The cherry on top is that the non union employees also still have not gotten a COLA for FY 2024.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joining the state of Virginia - all in.

You mean when Bowser was begging the feds to RTO she didn’t even have the city employees back in the office? Ha ha ha ha ha! What a moron.

They were supposed to be in the office 2 days a week but many managers were letting people do more. This new edict restricts managers from allowing more than 1 telework day a week on any kind of consistent basis. This is a more restrictive policy than what was in place pre-COVID. The cherry on top is that the non union employees also still have not gotten a COLA for FY 2024.

This should say the previous policy allowed telework 2 days a week but some managers were letting people do more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are several reasons this happened.

1) Buildings sitting empty. Why is the building being rented if nobody is in it? So you cannot justify that in your budget. Well, force people back in.

2)Business are complaining to the mayor and city council that without people coming into the office, they cant survive

3)Parking. DC garage companies are a mafia. Always have been. You can thank Marion Barry. People are not driving in and parking? There goes their $

4)Parking enforcement and traffic enforcement. While DC traffic enforcement is not something I remember being an issue, the parking enforcement is and always has been. Nobody driving into the city? There goes your revenue from ticketing people.

5) Metro. Less people riding trains. So more revenue goes down and there go the unions getting mad that their people are getting cut as they are not needed with decreased ridership. And in general, less riders=less revenuer in general for a crumbling public transportation infrastructure. Metro sucks, it is a shell of what it used to be.

6.Control. At one point, with people working from home, administrations lost oversight. Having people who could and did do their jobs without issue from home forced back into the office reeks of micro management.

Alot of people moved out of DC during COVID and moved to places like anywhere in WV in the panhandle, Adams County, PA, Frederick & Washington County MD and Louden & Frederick County, VA since they wanted bigger homes, land and low crime. Now, the "bettors" want them back in the grime. Do you think management will be returning? I know from experience, they are not where I work and it is the same at several other companies and government agencies.

It’s the city budget. Revenue projections are horrendous and Bowser was elected by a city that had a consistent, large surplus. She’s panicking and making rash decisions because her administration has never really had to budget before.

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Anonymous wrote:So DC government is forcing middle class government workers to subsidize billionaire commercial building owners. Nice.

I guess it's too hard to come up with a more innovative way to repurpose those buildings.

How are the workers subsidizing commercial building owners given DC owns many of its buildings and otherwise are on long term leases long since executed?

Exactly. I've asked my employees to come into the office 3 days per week. It's important that people see and work with each other.

I’ve done the opposite. My people are so much happier and more productive working from home. I trust them and certainly don’t need to be looking over their shoulders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it will help downtown DC become more lively

Not when you can't afford to go out and buy lunch. Or buy much of anything else. Guess there will me more middle class and lower middle class people on the Metro though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WH is “encouraging” all federal agencies in the DMV to be back to 50% in-office attendance (5 days per pay period) by next spring. If you work at a federal agency and aren’t yet back to half time in office, it is coming. The goal is for all federal agencies in DC to be back to pre-COVID levels of telework by next fall.

And lots of younger feds will leave. Much like younger city employees who have a choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WH is “encouraging” all federal agencies in the DMV to be back to 50% in-office attendance (5 days per pay period) by next spring. If you work at a federal agency and aren’t yet back to half time in office, it is coming. The goal is for all federal agencies in DC to be back to pre-COVID levels of telework by next fall.

So glad my agency offered 100% telework before COVID happened. Life is good.

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This will be interesting. It already sucks to work for DC government and they are on the lower end of the pay scale. I can see some of the professional staff - i.e., attorneys and analysts leaving. Bad move - 3 days in is the norm and people are cool with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WH is “encouraging” all federal agencies in the DMV to be back to 50% in-office attendance (5 days per pay period) by next spring. If you work at a federal agency and aren’t yet back to half time in office, it is coming. The goal is for all federal agencies in DC to be back to pre-COVID levels of telework by next fall.

Well I wasn’t even in the office 50% pre-COVID so keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So DC government is forcing middle class government workers to subsidize billionaire commercial building owners. Nice.

I guess it's too hard to come up with a more innovative way to repurpose those buildings.

How are the workers subsidizing commercial building owners given DC owns many of its buildings and otherwise are on long term leases long since executed?

Exactly. I've asked my employees to come into the office 3 days per week. It's important that people see and work with each other.

Just say you don't know how to manage people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to ask the criminals to show up in person 7 days a week but let everyone else get off easy.

Haha for the win!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are several reasons this happened.

1) Buildings sitting empty. Why is the building being rented if nobody is in it? So you cannot justify that in your budget. Well, force people back in.

2)Business are complaining to the mayor and city council that without people coming into the office, they cant survive

3)Parking. DC garage companies are a mafia. Always have been. You can thank Marion Barry. People are not driving in and parking? There goes their $

4)Parking enforcement and traffic enforcement. While DC traffic enforcement is not something I remember being an issue, the parking enforcement is and always has been. Nobody driving into the city? There goes your revenue from ticketing people.

5) Metro. Less people riding trains. So more revenue goes down and there go the unions getting mad that their people are getting cut as they are not needed with decreased ridership. And in general, less riders=less revenuer in general for a crumbling public transportation infrastructure. Metro sucks, it is a shell of what it used to be.

6.Control. At one point, with people working from home, administrations lost oversight. Having people who could and did do their jobs without issue from home forced back into the office reeks of micro management.

Alot of people moved out of DC during COVID and moved to places like anywhere in WV in the panhandle, Adams County, PA, Frederick & Washington County MD and Louden & Frederick County, VA since they wanted bigger homes, land and low crime. Now, the "bettors" want them back in the grime. Do you think management will be returning? I know from experience, they are not where I work and it is the same at several other companies and government agencies.

It’s the city budget. Revenue projections are horrendous and Bowser was elected by a city that had a consistent, large surplus. She’s panicking and making rash decisions because her administration has never really had to budget before.

Too little too late from Bowser. The District’s future is entirely bleak.