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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 [b]whose jobs are important too but not essential.
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Perhaps they could restructure payscales to have a second payscale for remote work that is a lower rate.[/quote]

Most of work done by teachers, garbage collectors, corrections officers, etc., is facilitated by those admin positions, who ensure coverage, pay, insurance, and future planning. They may not need to be onsite every day, but their functions truly are essential. [/quote]

Those functions as a whole are essential. But there are tons of organizations where 50 people are doing work that could easily be done by 30-35 people. The bloat in public school administration (I don't mean the principals, I mean the people who work for the admin building) is notorious. Like there is a whole department whose job is to select reading programs, pay tons of money for them, implement them, decide they are terrible and need to be gotten rid of, then rinse and repeat. [/quote]

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