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RTO in the DC area is as much due to pressure from various local governments to "save downtown" as it is a top-down program from the Biden administration. From everything I've seen, the local governments care way more about this than the feds do and they're getting pressure from businesses.
That's literally what it was...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/white-house-cabinet-in-person-work/index.html
And the vast majority of federal employees don't live in DC...
Okay, so obviously it has to come from the top officially. Unofficially, in the DC area, which is the region where I have personal knowledge of what happened, it was local pressure. The administration probably got the same nationally, hence the universal decision.
Edit: Plus, as the article says, OPM was willing to let agencies do whatever they want. The Biden administration got involved as Republicans introduced legislation to force RTO. So I guess I missed that part of it.
What local pressure?
We're talking about federal workers, GSA owns their buildings. So you can't mean property owners.
You think local restaurants missed the lunch breaks of federal workers so much that Biden caved to them and did something everyone disagrees with?
And that's better?
Hell, the vast majority of federal workers eat in their cafeterias and those are still operated by small contracts that were signed during COVID... So you can't possibly mean they're the ones pressuring Biden, return to office means agencies are looking for any excuse to cut their contracts because they can't handle the influx
I have no idea what you're trying to say, or where your "personal knowledge" is coming from.