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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]City employees will rebel over this.  Bowser will back down.  It will return to no more than two days in office.  Guaranteed.[/quote]
No chance.

That’s the whole point.  This is a way to reduce headcount without calling it a downsizing.[/quote]

It's not a bad idea. DC government agencies are filled with people who barely work. Also, the people most likely to object to this are people who live outside DC. If the upshot of this policy is that a bunch of DC employees living in VA/MD decide to quit instead of drive (you know they would drive not take public transportation) to work in DC 4 days a week, because they care so little about getting their jobs done that actually going to an office where they might interact with the people they supposedly serve is unreasonable to them, I am all for it. Take them off the payroll and keep them from becoming pension eligible. Fill those positions with DC residents who won't clog the streets with cars everyday.

I am not a Bowser fan but support this move. It's overdue in my opinion.[/quote]

This isn't accurate. The only city employees that are eligible for a pension were hired in 1987 or earlier. They'll just retire, not quit. The ones that will quit are the higher grade professionals that actually do work and have transferable skills. The lazy, lower grade employees don't have other hybrid, likely higher paying opportunities available to them, so they'll complain but do what they did before the pandemic - spend all day in the office not working. [/quote]

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