I like how GOP is so anti-work from home simply because it upsets people.

1. Stop bootlicking big business investors

2. the market is speaking and unfortunately some business are going to go out of business, this is how the economy works

3. as a tax payer why should my federal taxes need to be used to subsidize DC? DC needs to build its own economy. If agencies are more efficient and can hire better people with work from home, why should it not continue?

4. landlords in dc need to stop crying and LOWER their prices on commercial real estate or CONVERT it to housing/mixed use. My company right now is looking for a new office space. Our lease is up and we want new, more compact space with about 40% less footprint because of work from home. We’ve had three preliminary agreements fall through with commercial spaces because their investors have intervened and told the property managers they refuse to lease ½ floors because “the market will come back and soon people will be demanding full floors when work from home ends”. These companies are literally leaving money on the table because they insist they can wait out the WFH “fad”. The DC commercial real estate market was already on a downturn before Covid…it’s time we stopped allowing these dinosaurs to dominate the discourse on the future of the workplace.

You’re going to get downvoted because you’re using a personal anecdote as evidence for changing the lives of tens of thousands of people. And further, the evidence you’re providing doesn’t even prove the conclusion you come to.

Correlation does not equal causation. Because an agency is now slow doesn’t mean it’s because of WFH it could simply be because they change their process or a new person is doing this job and they are bad at it.