God this is disgusting. The mayor is making thousands of city employees' lives worse because... > Parker has also made clear she wants the city’s return-to-of

God this is disgusting. The mayor is making thousands of city employees' lives worse because... > Parker has also made clear she wants the city’s return-to-office plan to be a model for private-sector employers, part of her effort to make a more economically vibrant Philadelphia. Ah, yes, got it. The commercial real estate sector has been losing money, and those constituents are more important to her than the people who actually work for the city. I get the pressure to "revitalize downtowns", but this is not the way to do it. > Mayor Parker has cited the many thousands of city employees — sanitation workers, social workers, the water department — who never had the ability to work from home. Ah, yes, got that too. Some people's jobs unfortunately can't be done from home, so instead we should make everyone suffer, instead of trying to find ways to make work hours/arrangements better and more flexible for the workers who have to do their jobs on-site. Hell, at the very least you can take some of the money you're saving on office space and pay on-site-required workers more for their trouble.