City Staff Ideas Challenge
#nycspeaks2022 Share your ideas for bold actions the Mayor should take
Telework can offer increased accessibility and opportunities for the most vulnerable including those with physical disabilities and mental health conditions, flexibility for families and caregivers, and retention and attraction of top talent. Telework also provides city workers with more opportunity to invest in their own neighborhoods. Agencies are faced with severe attrition and staffing crises.
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Technology, flexibility, and investment in staff are all integral parts of organizational success.
Remote work can offer increased accessibility and opportunities for the most vulnerable including those with physical disabilities and mental health conditions, flexibility for families and caregivers, and retention and attraction of top talent.
Municipal workers make up a different and unique subset of the economy. Spending at the office was replaced with spending closer to home, which is still in New York. Therefore, as the data demonstrates, workers' agile working changes have no impact on spending or tax revenue.
For every worker that leaves the City for the private sector, State or Federal Government, that could potentially be the loss of an entire family to the City.
We are also faced with the stark reality that COVID-19 and its resultant illness will not be going away anytime soon. Variants demonstrated that we need to move quickly from an antiquated workplace model.
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