I have been pushing to go 1/2 time or 3/4s time for a while* with a large state agency and the primary reason I was given that I could not is because part-time

I have been pushing to go 1/2 time or 3/4s time for a while* with a large state agency and the primary reason I was given that I could not is because part-time jobs are more difficult to fill in the future. Which makes sense to me: in my field, and a lot of professional fields, most people have large student debt (I don’t) a family (I don’t) and barely manageable mortgages to boot (I don’t) and, therefore, they need a full-time paycheck. I am on my phone so I could not search all the comments to see if this had been said. * I am hoping the unavoidable budget shortfalls following this pandemic make this possible.