The Federal Government Is Embracing Telework. Can D.C.’S Economy Survive It?

As a government, you can't quite preach about environmental conservation when you require most work staff to be in office downtown everyday. Downtown was boring, and as DC turned more and more against car traffic roads became more and more dangerous and frustrating for everyone.

Buildings downtown are built without proper though for ventilation and modern comforts, parking/commuting added at least 1 hour of extra stress (and tons of extra expense) every day to an 8 hour day for many who lived in the city, even more for those who didn't, and for all the restaurant staff that hiked in every day as well to make sure boring areas of the city had lunch options at the high cost of paying downtown rent.

Yeah, teleconferencing is jarringly bland, but I don't miss commuting in real life at all, the uncomfortable office chair, the inability to save money by eating at home, the ability to have more time with family. That being said, if there is a mission-critical objective or problem I go down there, I just wish the gov would invest in upgrading ventilation and work spaces and stop paying so much for unused property now to take the changing WFH economy into consideration as well, oh yeah, and to tax billionaires, who can work from home whenever they want (or bypass traffic in their slick helicopters), like they tax me.