I would rarely agree with anything from Newsom, but am wondering why office employee don’t consider work AT the office as normal. I always thought it was normal for most any worker at any job. Maybe it’s the travel, which could be bad in L.A., but they should hire those within a reasonable distance if that’s the case. Didn’t these people have to originally show up to be hired?
Have you driven LA during rush hour. There is no reasonable distance.
Not necessarily. During COVID the place I work along with many others found lots of remote employees well outside their normal range (300+ miles). The issue I see is if you then have a return to work mandate that includes those people. Do you pay them to relocate? If not, you’ll create resentments with those who do have to return because they’ll look at it as why can they contribute remotely and I can’t.
One large company where I live was consistently a best places to work insurance company but they built a multimillion dollar office right before COVID and after COVID, had everyone return to work. They’re no longer a best place to work company.
During COVID, my now deceased younger brother went into work everyday as his role was to execute large financial trades that the CFO was making and they wanted the transactions executed behind all the companies networking protections. He didn’t mind it as he and a handful of security guards were the only ones in the building.