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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]
I think this is a bigger problem than the fact that some jobs can be done remotely while others can't. My private sector has some jobs that have to be 100% in person, some that are best done hybrid, and some that can be fully remote with occasional in-office meetings. It's apparent to everyone involved why they have whatever on-site requirements the do (and workers tend to have a lot of discretion), and as long as people like their jobs they come in where it makes sense.

If you absolutely hate your job, or your employer has done literally nothing to reconfigure the workplace (e.g. cluster people together or provide lunches on occasion), then that's going to create morale problems. But the solution isn't to make everyone RTO, it's to address why being in-office if your job requires it is so miserable.[/quote]

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