Governor Jim Pillen wants all state government employees at their desks in their assigned departments beginning next month.
He said the pandemic-era remote is over, although both empirical and anecdotal evidence nationwide show a workplace change that was pandemic caused has become the new normal. Oh, and never mind the fact that some state agencies have remote and telework policies that have been in place for 15 years. And, of course, not every department has the physical space available for more employees.
But those are just hard facts and nasty details. The governor is adamant about wanting bodies to be present so he can run government like a business. That was an old Pete Ricketts dream, but even he was realistic enough to realize that changing times call for changing best practices.
