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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got rid of some office space during pandemic, remote employees have changed office location, although most remote employees are remote locally. Basically, some employees change teleworking status (before Covid) to remote status, with SF 50 duty station changed too.

There is no funding to get more office space (flat funding, majority of funding goes to employees' salary; while salary/other costs increase annually, there is not even enough money to fill every vacancy).[/quote]

Why people are so concerned about RTO?  [/quote]

Lives have been re-arranged around telework (yes, even by/especially by people who are legitimately working the hours they say they are working all the time). Not having those commutes, having the flexibility to start a load of laundry or a crock pot during "lunch," being there for a 5 pm sports practice when before you wouldn't have, being able to be at home with a tween on a day off while still working, and so much more.

Now imagine undoing all that re-arranging.[/quote]

You made things work before Covid.  You can make it work now.  [/quote]
How about you articulate an actual reason for the policy change?[/quote]

Our nation's economy and the health of cities demands it. It's not just about YOU. There you go. [/quote]
Oh, weird how the nation’s productivity peaked at the same time WFH did. Makes me think the economy doesn’t depend on it at all.[/quote]

Drive through the downtown of any US city and the number is shuttered businesses and spaces for lease is shocking. Spaces that used to employee people. You working from your 4,000 square foot McMansion in Centerville isn't helping the economy. It's only helping YOUR own personal economy. [/quote]
Why is the neighborhood where I live less deserving than downtown? Seems elitist of you.[/quote]

Suck it up buttercup. Instead of tantruming here, you really should be working on your plan for when you are told to RTO full time. [/quote]

I'm not PP, but I don't think you understand what we're saying, the teleworkers either dgaf and will quit or they'll go in.  Everyone is just kind of over it.  The people sweating bullets aren't the GS people, it's the SES and above who'd have to actually implement RTO.[/quote]

It's easy. Like everything else, you "make a rule" and then ignore it. The political appointee clowns aren't going to check how many people are supposed to be in each room, and they aren't going to RTO themselves. 
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