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Headline is wrong, it's not San Francisco. From the NBCNews report:

> Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional government agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, voted Wednesday to move forward with a proposal to require people at large, office-based companies to work from home three days a week as a way to slash greenhouse gas emissions from car commutes.

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Yeah this is just poor reporting by the NYPost. It looks like this mandate is part of a 30-year long range planning proposal. It doesn't appear there's any regional or municipal legislation or business impacts tied to this in the short-run.

No doubt we have our share of idiotic proposals in the Bay Area, but this is definitely a misleading headline.

Here's an article that offers more context and concerns from SF politicians on the plan: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Bay-Area-planni...

Also per the Chronicle article linked above: "The Plan Bay Area Blueprint for 2050 was shaped by online public feedback this year during the coronavirus pandemic. The plan is expected to be adopted by next summer, but any legal mandates on remote work would require future legislation."

I can't imagine that the MTC has the legal authority to do something like that.

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