The mayor of Washington, D.C., says President Joe Biden should either help bring more federal workers back into the office or help convert underutilized office spaces into housing or other uses.
“The federal government represents one-quarter of D.C.’s prepandemic jobs and owns or leases one-third of D.C.’s office space,” Bowser said in the address. “We need decisive action by the White House to either get most federal workers back to the office most of the time, or to realign their vast property holdings for use by the local government, by nonprofits, by businesses and by any user willing to revitalize it.
“I think you can count on continued conversations with our federal partners on the downtown,” Bowser said. Currently, about 46% of federal employees say they’re not required to be at their offices all the time, according to the most recent federal employee viewpoint survey from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Indeed, some government workplaces have embraced flexible work and telework to retain and recruit employees, and a quarter of employees said in the same survey that they teleworked three or more days a week.
With more of those workers telecommuting — and the nonpartisan D.C. Policy Center noting that the metropolitan area has a higher-than-usual share of jobs that can be done from home — office occupancy remained low at the time of the report, at about 37% citywide and 35% in the downtown area.
Yes Murial you need more housing for all the FUCKEN IMMIGRANTS YOU DEMOCRATS LET CROSS OUR BORDER HOPEFULLY THELL GET JOBS THAT BLACKS SHOULD HAVE
So she’s offering to have DC house all the immigrants and homeless from CA and Texas? cc: GregAbbott_TX
Gotta love ultimatums those always work effectively
Again, free money for the people
Get the hell back to the office