Most private business don’t really care and are actually saving money and getting more productivity ….
White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients is ratcheting up pressure on Cabinet secretaries and agencies heads to bring their workforce back into the office, telling them to “personally track” their progress and develop “concrete plans” to achieve their goals.
Why it matters: Zients is convinced that the federal government will work more efficiently and effectively when employees are in the office at least 50% of the time.
- His aggressive push has yielded some results, but Zients — who has experience in the public and private sector — is plainly frustrated that more federal workers aren’t back at their desks.
- “Your agency should have a system for monitoring implementation progress fully in place,” Zients emailed agency and department heads Friday afternoon.
- “I expect that you are personally tracking your progress, and taking appropriate action to meet your agency goals,” he wrote.
- While he praised every agency for making progress, Zients also noted that “some of your agencies are not where they need to be….
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The bottom line: In the corporate world, that battle over return-to-office appears to have died down.
- Just 6 out of 158 U.S. CEOs said they’ll prioritize bringing workers back to the office full-time in 2024, according to a new survey released by the Conference Board, Axios reported…..