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

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

I thought he already did that?

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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.

DC employees already have to come in 3 days a week. The new policy mandates they come to work 4 days a week. As PPs have stated, non Union employees haven’t even received a COLA the past year even though the Feds have received 5%.

So DC employees had a pay cut the past few years because COLA was only 3.5% total in the past three FYs and they have to show up 4 days a week now and pay all the commuting costs that come with that. I wonder how valued these employees feel?

This. With inflation and the failure to give a COLA, DC employees have effectively gotten a pay cut. Now they have to spend their money to keep the city humming while everyone else is working from home? Great for morale.

Yup, their top performing employees will look to move over to the feds if they want to continue with the government. For years DC govt was pretty commensurate with the feds pay wise, and was generally lower stress so there wasn’t a pressing need to try and go fed, but this certainly changes that calculus. 4 days a week in the office is not happening with the feds.

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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.

DC employees already have to come in 3 days a week. The new policy mandates they come to work 4 days a week. As PPs have stated, non Union employees haven’t even received a COLA the past year even though the Feds have received 5%.

So DC employees had a pay cut the past few years because COLA was only 3.5% total in the past three FYs and they have to show up 4 days a week now and pay all the commuting costs that come with that. I wonder how valued these employees feel?

This. With inflation and the failure to give a COLA, DC employees have effectively gotten a pay cut. Now they have to spend their money to keep the city humming while everyone else is working from home? Great for morale.

Humming along? There’re not enough DC employees to do that. As for their morale, who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

I thought he already did that?

No, Zients put out a memo to do that. Fortunately, he has no authority over the federal workforce and was simply blown off. WFH for feds is here to stay.

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

Oh please. There’s no good reasons for Feds to RTO (or anyone else), especially if that’s just to support the DC economy. For Bowser to think that this is going to do anything is ludicrous and shows nothing but her desperation. No one in the Admin pays attention to her.

Many cities are having this issue. Don't just blame Bowser. I don't like her, but people need to get back to the office.

I took a Fed job based on the fact it's 1 day a month telework. Prior to that, I was a SAHM. We don't *need* my meager salary but it's nice to have a little extra, takes some pressure off DH as the sole provider, plus it's something to do while the kids are in school. My DH has weird work hours so the telework factor is what makes it all possible for me in the first place; to work around other needs at home. I'm not sure what sort of schedule my office had pre-Covid, but I will absolutely quit if I have to add 3 hours a day commuting to/from downtown.

So you took a job so you could work from home one day a month?? That makes no sense.

Pardon my typo. Had you read the rest of my response, you might have figured out I meant to type telework with only 1 day a month in office.

No, once I read the first line, I thought you were not very smart and stopped reading. But thanks for clarifying.

You’re the one who’s not very smart.

(not the quoted PP, but an intelligent person who can read and discern meaning)

Smart people don't make these mistakes. You sound like Ackman trying to defend plagiarizing Neri.

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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.

DC employees already have to come in 3 days a week. The new policy mandates they come to work 4 days a week. As PPs have stated, non Union employees haven’t even received a COLA the past year even though the Feds have received 5%.

So DC employees had a pay cut the past few years because COLA was only 3.5% total in the past three FYs and they have to show up 4 days a week now and pay all the commuting costs that come with that. I wonder how valued these employees feel?

So uh, asking for a friend.. anyone have any idea when the COLA for non union employees is coming?

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

I thought he already did that?

No, Zients put out a memo to do that. Fortunately, he has no authority over the federal workforce and was simply blown off. WFH for feds is here to stay.

Maybe he was trying to drum up office crowd to patronize his bagel store.

[Anonymous]

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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.

DC employees already have to come in 3 days a week. The new policy mandates they come to work 4 days a week. As PPs have stated, non Union employees haven’t even received a COLA the past year even though the Feds have received 5%.

So DC employees had a pay cut the past few years because COLA was only 3.5% total in the past three FYs and they have to show up 4 days a week now and pay all the commuting costs that come with that. I wonder how valued these employees feel?

This. With inflation and the failure to give a COLA, DC employees have effectively gotten a pay cut. Now they have to spend their money to keep the city humming while everyone else is working from home? Great for morale.

Humming along? There’re not enough DC employees to do that. As for their morale, who cares?

DC citizens, who are going to lose a lot of great public servants who don’t appreciate not only getting scraps in COLA while inflation has been out of control for the past few years but being told they have to show up an extra day a week in person just to serve as ATMs for business owners who make a lot more money than them.

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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.

DC employees already have to come in 3 days a week. The new policy mandates they come to work 4 days a week. As PPs have stated, non Union employees haven’t even received a COLA the past year even though the Feds have received 5%.

So DC employees had a pay cut the past few years because COLA was only 3.5% total in the past three FYs and they have to show up 4 days a week now and pay all the commuting costs that come with that. I wonder how valued these employees feel?

This. With inflation and the failure to give a COLA, DC employees have effectively gotten a pay cut. Now they have to spend their money to keep the city humming while everyone else is working from home? Great for morale.

Humming along? There’re not enough DC employees to do that. As for their morale, who cares?

DC citizens, who are going to lose a lot of great public servants who don’t appreciate not only getting scraps in COLA while inflation has been out of control for the past few years but being told they have to show up an extra day a week in person just to serve as ATMs for business owners who make a lot more money than them.

DC government salaries are quite high, actually, given their qualifications.

https://dchr.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dchr/publication/attachments/public_body_employee_information_211231.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

DC employees already have to come in 3 days a week. The new policy mandates they come to work 4 days a week. As PPs have stated, non Union employees haven’t even received a COLA the past year even though the Feds have received 5%.

So DC employees had a pay cut the past few years because COLA was only 3.5% total in the past three FYs and they have to show up 4 days a week now and pay all the commuting costs that come with that. I wonder how valued these employees feel?

This. With inflation and the failure to give a COLA, DC employees have effectively gotten a pay cut. Now they have to spend their money to keep the city humming while everyone else is working from home? Great for morale.

Humming along? There’re not enough DC employees to do that. As for their morale, who cares?

DC citizens, who are going to lose a lot of great public servants who don’t appreciate not only getting scraps in COLA while inflation has been out of control for the past few years but being told they have to show up an extra day a week in person just to serve as ATMs for business owners who make a lot more money than them.

DC government salaries are quite high, actually, given their qualifications.

https://dchr.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dchr/publication/attachments/public_body_employee_information_211231.pdf

Like a PP said, DC government generally has been pretty comparable to the feds in terms of pay and that was because in a city so saturated with fed jobs the DC government wouldn’t otherwise be able to attract interest from qualified job seekers. Bowser is tossing that out the window. What prospective employee would look at DC government over the feds right now with a 4 day a week in office mandate and no COLA, that’s right, the ones with less than stellar qualifications.

[Anonymous]

If DC government wants people to come back into town then they need to do A WHOLE LOT MORE about the out-of-control carjackings, armed robberies, and the dangerous drivers. People just don't feel safe. Mayor, MPD, Council, AGs, Judges and everyone else all need to step up and accept this reality and realize they need to make changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If DC government wants people to come back into town then they need to do A WHOLE LOT MORE about the out-of-control carjackings, armed robberies, and the dangerous drivers. People just don't feel safe. Mayor, MPD, Council, AGs, Judges and everyone else all need to step up and accept this reality and realize they need to make changes.

If DC did all those things it’s still not going to bring back the commuting workers required for economic recovery. WFH is a complete and total positive for organizations, workers, and families.
The DC directive to its employees to return is nothing more than a desperate and cynical attempt to prod the feds and private orgs to bring back their people which of course will fail.
Also, the majority of these workers live outside of DC and could care less about the city’s looming economic crisis.

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Anonymous wrote:If DC government wants people to come back into town then they need to do A WHOLE LOT MORE about the out-of-control carjackings, armed robberies, and the dangerous drivers. People just don't feel safe. Mayor, MPD, Council, AGs, Judges and everyone else all need to step up and accept this reality and realize they need to make changes.

Why I don't want to have to be in the office as much as I had to be before 2020: I'm more productive with work and home responsibilities working from home

NOT I don't want to have to be in the office as much as I had to be before 2020: carjackings, armed robberies, dangerous drivers

I like DC. I feel safe in DC. Regularly commuting to DC is a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If DC government wants people to come back into town then they need to do A WHOLE LOT MORE about the out-of-control carjackings, armed robberies, and the dangerous drivers. People just don't feel safe. Mayor, MPD, Council, AGs, Judges and everyone else all need to step up and accept this reality and realize they need to make changes.

Why I don't want to have to be in the office as much as I had to be before 2020: I'm more productive with work and home responsibilities working from home

NOT I don't want to have to be in the office as much as I had to be before 2020: carjackings, armed robberies, dangerous drivers

I like DC. I feel safe in DC. Regularly commuting to DC is a waste of time.

I agree. I feel safe. I am now with the feds where I am mostly remote but would still look at DC opportunities even with a 3-day a week requirement. Not a four day one - that's more than what was required pre-pandemic. Absolutely nuts.

[Anonymous]

Work from home will gradually go away in most sectors. Not going back to 5 day weeks but 3 or 4 days will be the norm.

Only way America’s economy stays strong.