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To put this another way.
If your employee is capable of working from home, and an employee has to be home, would you rather them work or take the day off?
Saying full time in office sounds nice. But employers are going to choose to have a working associate over a non-working associate.
It's a funny situation when it comes to government work, because technically the job doesn't actually produce anything. There are no shareholders and no profits. If an asshat micromanager wants to see a bunch of people keeping their office seats warm, they don't give a shit about productivity.
My office would genuinely rather I take the day off, and that mindset is never going to change. Luckily, I get a decent amount of remote time, but there is literally no reason that it couldn't just be 100% remote.
I worked for a government contractor for about 4 years. About half the year there was nothing to do, but retraining and retaining talent was so difficult, that it was just more cost effective to have people sit around and do nothing. And since the boss was really the government paying the bills, nobody really cared most of the time.
I hear they went remote 100% after I left.
Where I work, everything can be done remotely. We use cloud based software for everything and teams for company meetings. We're still required to come into the office. If you can't make it in for that day, you need to use PTO. We cannot choose to take the day unpaid either. I do not have the option to work while home.