Canary in the recession coal mine...

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13. Yup

Before I retired from the federal government, I know my collegues down in HQ in the D.C. metro area had instituted "hoteling", coming into swing space a couple times a week with their laptops.

With the pandemic, that started changing and people were doing full work at home. Of course this has caused all the "touchy-feely-must-see-my-employees-in-person-or-i-collapse" bosses to go into a tizzy. But I think whether they like it or not, by having an available and robust network, the days of this type of "office space" is shifting in a major way.

I know I have heard from some of my former buddies still there at my own government building and they have said it is literally deserted there now (at least for some of the branches) and they only come in to update their PIV cards or maybe pick up a GOV or some other stuff (look at an industry file, etc). When these offices got rid of the secretarial pools years ago and had employees doing their own "typing" (word processor programs) it precluded the need for endless killing of tree printouts and cross-out edits. It's all done electronically and collaboratively.