As I understand it, half the reason that the "return-to-the-office" mandate is so contentious is that office planning fell apart during the Covid pandemic and there physically isn't enough space in government offices for them all to return as directed.
My corporate head office finally instituted a return-to-office policy effective next month, expecting everyone back 2-3 days a week starting next Tuesday, but we're going to run into a massive, massive problem: we gave up two-thirds of our office space a couple years ago. I planned ahead and kept enough desks for my team permanently carved out, but everybody else is scrambling. Corporate bozos expect that the lack of office space can simply be "scheduled around", but fail to grasp the simple math that if you are expecting a proportion of people to be back two out of three days midweek, you need at least two-thirds of the total number of workers worth of desks for everybody. Even jamming everybody into cubes, we're still ~20 workstations short...
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