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Anonymous wrote:I believe we've seen an entire generation or two of Americans in big cities experience / discover an enormous shift in thinking about when, how, and why they work. I own a small business and its impacting me because my employees, who are younger, see the world differently. It's not going to be as easy as just sending out this memo and telling agency heads to make it happen.

But it’s not just that. For people with families, it’s about schools, housing and commutes. I’m perfectly happy to work 9-5:30. I don’t want to commute 2 hrs/day just so my kid can be enrolled in a decent school in a house I can afford. If Zients wants us middle-level feds (the backbone of our agencies) to stay put he needs to also pay attention to schools and housing prices. But I bet he’d be horrified to have his precious SFH neighborhood upzoned for apartments.

. It’s not just Zients. The politicians want to be re-elected. State and local government workers are back in the office. Different treatment for feds isn’t going to fly with voters.

I don’t think any voters are going one way or the other based on RTO policies. This clearly has a lot more to do with federal leases of commercial properties and putting some REITS in peril by letting feds stay home.

Oh, you are VERY mistaken.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe we've seen an entire generation or two of Americans in big cities experience / discover an enormous shift in thinking about when, how, and why they work. I own a small business and its impacting me because my employees, who are younger, see the world differently. It's not going to be as easy as just sending out this memo and telling agency heads to make it happen.

But it’s not just that. For people with families, it’s about schools, housing and commutes. I’m perfectly happy to work 9-5:30. I don’t want to commute 2 hrs/day just so my kid can be enrolled in a decent school in a house I can afford. If Zients wants us middle-level feds (the backbone of our agencies) to stay put he needs to also pay attention to schools and housing prices. But I bet he’d be horrified to have his precious SFH neighborhood upzoned for apartments.

. It’s not just Zients. The politicians want to be re-elected. State and local government workers are back in the office. Different treatment for feds isn’t going to fly with voters.

I don’t think any voters are going one way or the other based on RTO policies. This clearly has a lot more to do with federal leases of commercial properties and putting some REITS in peril by letting feds stay home.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe we've seen an entire generation or two of Americans in big cities experience / discover an enormous shift in thinking about when, how, and why they work. I own a small business and its impacting me because my employees, who are younger, see the world differently. It's not going to be as easy as just sending out this memo and telling agency heads to make it happen.

But it’s not just that. For people with families, it’s about schools, housing and commutes. I’m perfectly happy to work 9-5:30. I don’t want to commute 2 hrs/day just so my kid can be enrolled in a decent school in a house I can afford. If Zients wants us middle-level feds (the backbone of our agencies) to stay put he needs to also pay attention to schools and housing prices. But I bet he’d be horrified to have his precious SFH neighborhood upzoned for apartments.

. It’s not just Zients. The politicians want to be re-elected. State and local government workers are back in the office. Different treatment for feds isn’t going to fly with voters.

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Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/alexthomp/status/1687574175622316033?s=46&t=RXug2E3wPuDEf8vlgSC9SQ

Dude just wants people to go to his shitty bagel shop more

CYM are legit decent bagels, though I’m no New Yorker.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe we've seen an entire generation or two of Americans in big cities experience / discover an enormous shift in thinking about when, how, and why they work. I own a small business and its impacting me because my employees, who are younger, see the world differently. It's not going to be as easy as just sending out this memo and telling agency heads to make it happen.

But it’s not just that. For people with families, it’s about schools, housing and commutes. I’m perfectly happy to work 9-5:30. I don’t want to commute 2 hrs/day just so my kid can be enrolled in a decent school in a house I can afford. If Zients wants us middle-level feds (the backbone of our agencies) to stay put he needs to also pay attention to schools and housing prices. But I bet he’d be horrified to have his precious SFH neighborhood upzoned for apartments.

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Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/alexthomp/status/1687574175622316033?s=46&t=RXug2E3wPuDEf8vlgSC9SQ

Dude just wants people to go to his shitty bagel shop more

CYM are legit decent bagels, though I’m no New Yorker.

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/alexthomp/status/1687574175622316033?s=46&t=RXug2E3wPuDEf8vlgSC9SQ

Dude just wants people to go to his shitty bagel shop more

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly this smarmy, obnoxious letter by a multi-millionaire private equity bro is pushing me over the edge to officially register as Independent. I don’t necessarily disagree with most Biden policies, but it’s just the utter charade of the Democratic establishment pretending to be “progressive” that I cannot identify with anymore.

This. I’m done with bowser too

Anonymous wrote:Honestly this smarmy, obnoxious letter by a multi-millionaire private equity bro is pushing me over the edge to officially register as Independent. I don’t necessarily disagree with most Biden policies, but it’s just the utter charade of the Democratic establishment pretending to be “progressive” that I cannot identify with anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe we've seen an entire generation or two of Americans in big cities experience / discover an enormous shift in thinking about when, how, and why they work. I own a small business and its impacting me because my employees, who are younger, see the world differently. It's not going to be as easy as just sending out this memo and telling agency heads to make it happen.

But it’s not just that. For people with families, it’s about schools, housing and commutes. I’m perfectly happy to work 9-5:30. I don’t want to commute 2 hrs/day just so my kid can be enrolled in a decent school in a house I can afford. If Zients wants us middle-level feds (the backbone of our agencies) to stay put he needs to also pay attention to schools and housing prices. But I bet he’d be horrified to have his precious SFH neighborhood upzoned for apartments.

Anonymous wrote:I believe we've seen an entire generation or two of Americans in big cities experience / discover an enormous shift in thinking about when, how, and why they work. I own a small business and its impacting me because my employees, who are younger, see the world differently. It's not going to be as easy as just sending out this memo and telling agency heads to make it happen.

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Anonymous wrote:This is Biden's Chief of Staff. He is carrying out the President's direction here. Sure, he likely had a lot of flexibility in exactly what was said. But people who write him off as "a choad" should realize that this is not some random person ranting. This is direction from the White House.

(Taking no stance whatsoever on the debate over WFH/hybrid/onsite.)

“Direction from the WH”? Sure, but certainly not from “the President”. What a joke.

Weird. I don’t see why you think the president doesn’t agree with the email. He said something similar in the state of the union.

Stop being naive. Zients is the COS - he sent this clueless and condescending email and no doubt is the moving force behind the policy. I don’t generally indulge in this kind of reasoning, but Zients is absolutely a direct pipeline to private equity/real estate investment interests that are concerned about commerical real estate.

I’m not naive, l believe Biden supports RTO. I work with a lot of government agencies, but not federal. They generally have to work 3 days a week in person now. Why not the feds? That looks really bad to a lot of non-fed voters.