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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]I'm really shocked and saddened by the movement to gut DC of DC-based positions. Typically, supporters of unions are strong community activists.

Federal government jobs are the core of DC employment. Yes, DC employment is somewhat diversified, but even many private firms are here because federal government functions are here. Perhaps, OP and their ilk represent a few jobs, but they are setting a dangerous precedent.In fact, they are using the CFPB as precedent for what they want. This is not about a few workers who want to take their goodies and leave DC. It is about a few people who want to start a trend to gut the area of its bedrock employment and economic well-being.

And, remember, a community is about more than home prices, it is also about local governments, schools, and small businesses. It is so highly ironic that both the CFPB and the Fed have a community development mandate, and yet, their staff are leading the charge to gut their own community.

This whole thread seems very employee focused with little concern about the institutions of government and the Metro area. What is a country to do when even its own stewards sit ready to undermine it?[/quote]

Why does the community have to be DC?  Other communities matter too. [/quote]

Because DC is where the jobs have been, and therefore, much investment has been made on their behalf. Subways, airports, etc. are not transportable.  Also, there are large human and physical “networks” that support an industry, which are not easily disassembled and moved elsewhere. If you don’t like DC, why don’t you change jobs and move? Why do you need to take a DC-based job elsewhere? If you went to Broadway and asked to perform your role virtually, they’d laugh at you. [/quote]

[b]Because they want to be paid more and live in a lower rent area [/b]because somehow they think they’re the only person who can’t afford a mansion. They take into account no impacts from the personal move, raising prices elsewhere or increasing traffic. They don’t care about the impact of the area they leave. They have no concern for organizational effectiveness outside of the immediate team. They don’t notice that federal offices in other states have a lower standard of living, save a handful of places they’re unlikely to choose, and that those employees don’t make a DC salary and never did, so if management even moves them they may have a higher salary than existing employees in those areas, but also they don’t want to actually take the locality pay change. It’s a self serving short term understanding of so many things that leads to this argument.

Personally, I love a hybrid environment.

I think that’s what really constitutes a win-win for everyone. If people are in a couple dats a week there are enough workers to support infrastructure, traffic is decreased, flexibility is increased, and organizational effectiveness remains in tact. [/quote]

Are you referring to staff who move to lower cost of living regions or staff who move to less expensive parts of the DMV?   [/quote]

Other areas of the country, not extended DMV. I’ve always worked with people who live very far away (like North Carolina or New Jersey)[b] and figure out how to be in the office as often as everyone else[/b] and I don’t mean those people either.[/quote]

That’s great. We should all go to the office 5 days a week, shut our office door and do our work.  Collaboration and innovation can’t happen unless we are all working from our individual offices with closed doors. [/quote]

WTF. No one said 5 days a week. I didn’t even work 5 days a week in the office before the pandemic.  In any case my argument was regarding locality pay. [/quote]

The Fed is now proposing 50% in office which is more than most Feds and considerably more than any other FIRREA. Locality pay is a detour and frolic of your  own. Locality pays can be established for remote positions, same way they are now in many agencies. [/quote]

Locality pay is not a frolic. At some point, OP divulged that their real goal was to go remote. Currently, the Board does not have locality pay. If OP goes remote without locality pay, that is a personal boon. Also, if OP goes remote, others will want to. Despite what OP says, the community argument is a real and good one. [/quote]

Talk about straw manning. The Fed can create localities for remote. And of course, we’re talking about telework in DC, not just remote. [/quote]

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