{"id":2010401,"date":"2023-08-24T04:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/families-prepare-for-federal-demand-to-return-to-in-person-work\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T04:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:25:40","slug":"families-prepare-for-federal-demand-to-return-to-in-person-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/families-prepare-for-federal-demand-to-return-to-in-person-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Families brace for federal push to resume in-person work."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamilies-prepare-for-federal-demand-to-return-to-in-person-work%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democrats and Republicans Call for Federal \u200bEmployees to Return to Work<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats and\u2062 Republicans in the nation&#8217;s capital are calling \u2064for federal employees\u200b to return to their posts in person as Washington, D.C.&#8217;s economy is \u200din jeopardy and workers weigh \u200chow the move will affect family life.<\/p>\n<h3>President Biden&#8217;s\u2063 Plan for In-Person Work<\/h3>\n<p>President Joe Biden asked federal agency\u2063 officials to \u2064call\u2064 their employees back\u2064 to the office earlier \u2064this month, with a plan to report for in-person work this fall.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As we\u200d look towards the fall, and with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, your agencies \u2064will be implementing increases in the amount of in-person work for your team,&#8221; White House chief of \u200dstaff\u2063 Jeff Zients wrote\u200d in \u200dan \u2064Aug. \u200d4 email\u200d to Cabinet leadership. &#8220;This is a priority of the President \u2014 and I \u200dam looking to each of you to aggressively execute this \u2063shift in September and October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Republicans Join the Call<\/h3>\n<p>Republicans have also joined the\u200c call,\u200c condemning \u200dthe Biden administration for not acting quickly enough and to return to work following the \u200bend of the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-bob-good-jim-banks-introduce-bill-to-stop-bidens-costly-freeze-on-student-loan-payments\/\" title=\"Exclusive: Bob Good, Jim Banks Introduce Bill to Stop Biden's Costly Freeze on Student Loan Payments\">coronavirus emergency declaration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a letter\u200c to Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Guzman, Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), chairman\u200d of the House\u2064 Small Business \u2062Committee, \u2062said, &#8220;According to President\u200b Biden, the COVID pandemic has been \u200cover for 11 months. Why the federal government is just \u2063now planning on getting back to work is beyond me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Williams&#8217;s letter \u2062also \u2062mentioned \u200cthe harm to small\u200d businesses\u2064 and the waste\u2062 of taxpayer dollars from &#8220;underutilized&#8221; federal buildings with\u200c a fraction of the in-person staff they \u2064were meant to hold.<\/p>\n<h3>Economic\u2062 Damage and \u200cTax Revenue Loss<\/h3>\n<p>A Government Accountability\u200c Office report from July noted that &#8220;17 of the 24 federal agencies used on average an estimated 25 percent or less of the \u200ccapacity of their headquarters buildings.&#8221; Even\u2062 agencies on\u200d the &#8220;higher range&#8221; \u200dof\u2063 in-person work did not surpass a 50% threshold.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u200dreport, agencies spend around $2 billion per year to operate \u200dfederal office buildings, regardless of the in-person capacity. They also spend about \u200d$5 billion\u200c per year \u200cto lease buildings.<\/p>\n<p>More than taxpayer\u2063 costs \u2064to maintain \u2063buildings, however, is the economic damage working from home has done to\u200b Washington, D.C., \u2063as \u200ca city.<\/p>\n<p>As office buildings emptied\u2063 in the nation&#8217;s capital, tax revenue made from those large properties \u2063dropped. In 2022, that cash stream alone made up just under 9% of the city&#8217;s total revenue.<\/p>\n<p>A 2022 study by the D.C. Policy Center\u2062 found that 137 of 733 large office \u200dbuildings in the city\u2063 had higher than 25% vacancy rates, causing property owners to\u200d start filing challenges to property tax assessments \u2063from the city. That is\u200c coupled with the fact that the assessed value \u200cof the same office buildings dropped from $69 billion to 60% billion in 2021, according to city data.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2064 February,\u2063 Washington Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee\u2064 said a continuation of\u2062 the remote work \u2064policy poses &#8220;a serious long-term risk to the District\u2019s economy and its tax base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That concern is\u2063 borne\u200c out \u200cin the D.C.\u2062 Policy Center&#8217;s analysis, which found that if\u200d the city&#8217;s roughly 155,000 commuters worked \u2062from home three days per week, the city \u200ccould\u200c see\u200b $62.9 million \u200din \u2062sales tax \u2062revenue losses.<\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic, 70% of workers with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/families-prepare-for-federal-demand-to-return-to-in-person-work\/\" title=\"Families brace for federal push to resume in-person work.\">remote-capable \u2063jobs commuted<\/a> four or \u2063more days per week,\u200d compared\u200b to 19% now.<\/p>\n<p>There is also \u200ca diminished desire for many workers to\u2064 end their remote lifestyles, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll from \u200dMarch.<\/p>\n<p>That survey found 47% of area workers say their job\u200c can be \u2064done remotely, 37% of whom work fully from\u2062 home. \u200bAnother \u206348% have a hybrid \u2063working arrangement, \u200dwhile 13 are\u2062 fully in person. About 66% \u200bof those\u2063 workers would prefer remote work most \u2064of the time, and\u200c 38% said they would\u2063 prefer it all the \u200btime.<\/p>\n<p>The preference to stay home is complicated by several factors, but for many, it has\u2062 been parents&#8217; ability \u2062to stay home and raise their children without \u200dhaving to \u200cworry as much\u2062 about third-party childcare.<\/p>\n<p>According to research done by the Institute for\u2064 Family\u2062 Studies and Brigham Young University&#8217;s Wheatley Institute, more than 50% of mothers and fathers with\u2063 children would prefer\u2064 to work from home half or\u200d most of the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Covid gave them the opportunity to experience \u200bthat, and they\u200d liked it,&#8221; study\u200c co-author and BYU professor Jenet Erickson, whose research specializes in\u200c maternal and child well-being, told the Washington \u2062Examiner. &#8220;There are strong reasons as \u200bto why parents identify caring for their children \u200dat\u200d home \u2062as the \u200dideal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A close, consistent, emotionally available relationship beginning with the mother during the earliest period of development, and with the father as development continues lays the essential foundation for brain and body development,&#8221; she\u200c continued, adding that\u2064 &#8220;parents intuitively understand&#8221; this.<\/p>\n<p>Parents\u200d experienced new ways to orient care\u2062 for their children, and preference for at-home care from parents, in some form, was preferred by 30% of \u200cparents\u200c over third-party child care, \u2062which was \u2064the\u200d preference of 11% of parents.<\/p>\n<p>The time parents spend at\u2064 home \u2064with their children is essential to early childhood development, Erickson said, which is &#8220;dependent on\u2064 a \u2062specific quality of social-emotional experience within the\u200b core relationships of family\u2064 life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Extensive \u200btime spent in center-based \u200bdaycare \u2062has been\u200d associated with\u200c risk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-nurse-suspended-after-revealing-child-on-puberty-blockers-others-identifying-as-non-binary-without-parents-knowledge\/\" title=\"School Nurse Suspended After Revealing Child On Puberty Blockers, Others Identifying As Non-Binary Without Parents\u2019 Knowledge\">social-emotional development<\/a>. &#8220;Young children from average, \u200bhealthy homes\u2063 could \u200dbe harmed by spending long hours away from their parents,&#8221; Erickson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This does \u2063not mean\u2064 that spending any time in child \u200bcare during the early years of development\u200d puts children at risk,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;In fact, evidence\u2062 suggests \u2062that \u200dhigh-quality care \u2063can\u2064 be beneficial for children from disadvantaged \u2063homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK \u200dHERE TO \u200cREAD \u2063MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON\u200b EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans urge federal employees to resume in-person work in Washington, D.C. Concerns arise over the impact on family life as the city&#8217;s economy is at risk. 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