'I'm telling JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, I'm telling all of them, ‘Listen, I need your people back in the office,'' Mayor Adams said. 'How does that look – that city employees are home while I'm telling everyone else it's time to get back to work?”
The fight by city workers for a remote option has only intensified as more employers relax their return-to-office policy and as City Hall approaches negotiations with District Council 37, the largest municipal union in New York. In December, Henry Garrido, the head of the union, said a teleworking policy for city workers was “long overdue.” The union, which is currently soliciting input from workers, plans to stage a rally for a new contract later this month.
The shrinking workforce has put pressure on city agency leaders and managers who are charged with retaining talent and maintaining morale as well as delivering critical services. During a Wednesday morning Zoom meeting with agency commissioners, Frank Carone, the mayor’s chief of staff, reiterated the mayor’s message. But he also acknowledged the difficulty of asking all employees to return to the office.
“Now, we know that is somewhat of a sticky directive,” Carone said, according to a recording of the meeting provided to Gothamist. “Because some employees either got used to working from home or are seeing alternatives in the marketplace with hybrid formulas.”by the Partnership for New York City, a business group, found that nearly 80% of 160 major Manhattan-based employers said they anticipated moving toward a permanent hybrid model.
First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo, who was also present at the meeting, thanked the commissioners and those in the Zoom meeting for their work.She added: “There might have been accommodations in the last administration but this is a new mayor, a new day, and we're going to get our city back.
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