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This is the crux of it.  Too many people who feel they suffered so everyone else must too.
So. Many. Aholes.[/quote]
But how does an agency balance it with those that can't telework?

I can't telework and I was in person all through covid. Morale for the in person workforce was awful and we constantly lost people who went for telework jobs. I spent $300 in gas alone to get to the office when my coworkers sat at home and complained if they had to come in one day per month to keep the network connection active.

You can't effectively run an agency when 80% of the workforce works at home and gets to live a vastly better life and tell the other 20% to suck it up.

If anyone has a serious answer to this then I'd love to hear it. Saying "suck it up" to the in person workforce isn't the answer. [/quote]

+1 relatedly, in many workplaces the in-person jobs pay less. These are the bus drivers, police, firefighters, corrections officers, case workers, teachers, solid waste workers, etc. that are actually making society function on a daily basis, not the budget analysts, program managers and administrators that can WFH and whose jobs are important too but not essential.

Perhaps they could restructure payscales to have a second payscale for remote work that is a lower rate.[/quote]

This is a larger societal question that was especially laid bare during the pandemic; the fact that we underpay people critical to our society.  But I don't see how this problem equates to forcing an office worker who can do their job at home to commute.  The people who work on site benefit from things like a quicker commute/less traffic, easier parking, less pollution etc when some workers stay home.[/quote]

And I would add that I say this as someone who had to come onsite for a lot of my job.  I loved having an easier commute and easier parking because others were working from home.  And I enjoyed that I could sometimes telework a day a week for the things I did not need to be onsite to do and skip the commute that one day.

If some people have conditions that they don't like, we should try to improve those, not try to bring others down to increased suffering that doesn't actually improve the work/mission.[/quote]

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