One question I do have is who is staffing the various public facing offices that other folks need to go to in-person if they need something? Is that the people at the regional locations you talked about?
People should be able to work from home, 100%. If it comes at the expense of regular citizens not being able to get their own work or essential tasks done in good time, however, that's an issue.
I am prefacing this to note every department is different.
Public facing offices during the early days of the pandemic they were on a rotational system if possible. They have all mostly have returned OR never left at all. It also depended on the department.
In the health care facilities and corrections, they never left of course.
In a facility that wasn't public facing but perhaps had more demanding work that could only be completed in office due to any number of reasons, they generally were in office with telework options or no telework at all.
But again, it varied between departments and the tasks being done.
And of course if they were administrative staff vs any other sort of job. Or departments that restructured and divested property…
It's honestly hard to answer due to departments having their own implementation of telework and circumstances.
But I will say most of Sacramento was working at home if they weren't public facing. Most only needed to go into the office twice a month, if even that. This is why they are pushing back so hard. You'll find staff away from Sacramento aren't as shocked by the return to work mandate.
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