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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feds should all be back at least 3 days a week as well.  [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

[b]Because like it or not the District will not survive without a sustained federal workforce presence. [/b] It will also set an example and help private sector firms get greater return to offices numbers.

Otherwise the tax base of cities disappears and the US economy takes a hit.   All about the economic reality of  how America is set-up.  You are not going to be able to convert significant amounts of commercial real estate to condos and if that is attempted you won’t find buyers. [/quote]

That's silly. They don't need me coming to DC, sitting in a cubicle, using DC public utilities, then going home again. Nobody benefits from that. Also nobody benefits from making me come to DC to sit in a cubicle to do the exact same things for work that I do at home.[/quote]

Maybe you are an outlier, but most people that commute into the city pay for parking or metro and patronize the local businesses. [/quote]

Again, asking DC Gov employees to come back 1 more day a week and now work 4 days a week in office is not going to bend the needle and bring DC’s economy back. The Feds and the private sector aren’t going to be influenced and change course based on this. All this does, is raise costs for already underpaid DC public servants who have been losing money the past several years to inflation because of scant COLAs while their Fed counterparts have been receiving generous COLAs and have better work from home arrangements on top of that.

You can celebrate unnecessarily putative move against DC Gov employees, but don’t be upset about the services you get when the DC Gov can’t hire qualified employees in the future because the pay and work from home benefits they offer lag so far behind the Feds.[/quote]

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