White House asks Cabinet agencies to 'aggressively execute' return to in-person work

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65. This is not an ideological issue for me, but a functional one.

If government functions better with people on site, that's how it should be, paying wages that make people willing to work on site.

I worked at home for years with all degrees of autonomy and on site. Strictly my decision, with my acceptance of different sets of benefits and costs. I was ABLE to move to working at home because modern technology enabled it and because it worked for both institutions and me.

Speaking from personal experience and observation of some I knew, a lot of people are not suited to long-term remote work, and personal costs they never intended can pile up insidiously over years, including crippled skills and income advancement.

Btw, virtually all "office" work can be done from a recliner, and is. I've seen it.

Generally sedentary lives cost less and can be supported on lower incomes, and lots of people are very willing to be paid less to work from home, ultimately blighting many other aspects of their lives and lifestyles, extending through the retirement decades to the end.