Bill Johanesen
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ORIGINAL: Lynn G. Bill, my husband works for a federal agency and first, only gets about one more paid holiday than "the average worker." Second, he and his co-workers never missed a day of work, but they've been working from home. For those workers who, by the nature of their job, need to interact with the public - that has been a different story. The pandemic is just as dangerous to them and their families as it is to yours. I read somewhere that there has been a lot of concern about the fact that no work is getting done. Most government workers barely get anything done when their at work. Send them home can only drop that work production further. Problem is that it's simply not a result orientated work atmosphere. Not singling out your husband but he is a Packers fan Possibly a fair question about how much work gets done from home, but yes, I can attest that my husband is extremely diligent about putting in his hours in the home office we created for him, and he's often (in fact right now) part of agency zoom-type calls (I have no idea what platform they use) where no doubt everyone has to be up to date on what they're working on. Even before the pandemic, his office had an option for people to work from home a couple days a week and it seemed to go pretty well. He had no interest in it at that time, but obviously there was no choice once Covid hit. I suppose it depends on the kind of business someone works in, but it seems that if someone is not getting much done, the employer would recognize that and send them packing. The obvious news about how many people are unemployed right now should be a butt kick to make everyone keep up with their duties so they don't end up in the unemployment lines too. Nothing I can do about the Packer-fan thing though. Outside of illegal activity, it's very, very difficult to fire a government worker.
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