A former public service executive tries to make sense of the rigidity of the government's return-to-office policy.

The Treasury Board confirmed that "no specific metrics, assessments, or studies" were used to determine if RTO-4 would deliver better services.

California state workers have made their opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s four-day return-to-office mandate hard to miss. They have protested outside downtown Sacramento office buildings and called ...

“Since February 5, 2026, PSPC has not added any net new office space to its portfolio,” she said in an email. “The Department is considering acquiring additional space over the next few months to ...

More than a dozen federal government departments and agencies are set to spend more than $18 million to get their employees to work in the office more often.

America’s work culture has always rewarded the person who takes initiative, challenges assumptions and ships something new.

“Close door” buttons in elevators are an even better example of placebo buttons. Most in the United States do nothing–because if they worked, they would be illegal. Federal law requires elevator doors ...

Despite knocking on “thousands of doors,” incumbent Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said he’s heard very little from voters about issues specific to federal public servants. Instead, he said, most people are ...

Like many public servants navigating the challenges of the federal government’s return-to-office mandate, Pierre-Paul Roy faced a parking hurdle when a policy commonly known as RTO-4 required public ...

Surprisingly, the same study found that the ‘RTO Tax’ is lowest in some of the country’s most expensive cities, including New York, Boston, and San Francisco, once salary is factored in. American ...

In every state, a day’s delay in delivery means that if mail voters wait until the last day or two before the election to mail their ballot... they could be disenfranchised.” ...

County election officials this week began mailing ballots to every registered California voter for the Nov. 3 midterm election, kicking off a monthlong vote-by-mail stretch — albeit one shadowed by a ...