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[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]

While I understand all that, I think feds need to understand:

A lot of us already went through this.

Like you're just late to the game. RTO has been a thing for 3 years. I know many people who arranged their lives around telework schedules only to be told at some point in the last few years that their employer was changing their telework policy and they'd be expected back in the office more days than they thought (or at all).

In fact, prior to Covid, I had a similar experience where I went out on maternity leave from a job where we had a certain telework arrangement and then was told, two weeks before coming back from leave, that the telework policy had changed to eliminate flex time and to reduce the number of telework days we could use, and it totally upended the childcare arrangements I'd spent months arranging. It sucked. But I figured it out and life went on.

The same will be true for all of you. This situation is going to work itself out. Given some of Trump's and Musk's proposals, I would actually view potential RTO as among the lower level problems we all might have to deal with here.[/quote]

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