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.
GREAT idea Jeremiah -- this is common sense when you look at important pieces like attrition and accessibility for New Yorkers with disabilities. We want to follow the Mayor as he leads us through an exciting period of innovation, and I can't think of a better way.
I completely agree. Teleworking has so many benefits for our city workers and our community. More importantly, it is safer and helps us fight against the COVID-19 pandemic that is still ongoing.
Why is there double standard for city workers? Why is FISA or Cyber is able to WFH or Hybrid as of today (2022)! Why?
https://www.thecity.nyc/health/2021/12/23/22852537/city-employees-call-for-remote-work-option-as-omicron-spreads
Also there is no point of looking for "equality" everywhere. Last we checked, we all had different paychecks.
Municipal employees already showed during the height of the pandemic that we can work successfully from home. Mayor Adam's supported this concept when he was seeking our Union votes 🗳 during the Democratic primary.
When we work at home 🏡 we support our local economies. We have to pivot as we are losing talent from all city agencies to the private sector. We can reduce our office footprint and repurpose those buildings to deal with the homeless crisis we have in NYC. We can consolidate field offices and make those offices we use in a neighborhood style office space where you come in only when we have to gather for certain office tasks. We need the outer borough Mayor to remember his promises to Union members and our families that he would support an alternative work schedule 📅. Promises Made in this area have NOT been kept!! We need a Mayor who is going to make the public sector competitive and flexible for those who choose to serve NYC.
I strongly agree that we need flexible telework options for city employees whose roles allow for it. COVID aside, giving back the commute time is a huge quality of life upgrade that would cost the city nothing. It would also allow greater flexibility for those with chronic illness, family/pet care needs, and just general life - how many times have people needed to take a day just to let a landlord in to fix something, when they could have just as easily been working at home during that time?
Aside from those benefits, we should also realize that many city offices are small, crowded, outdated, and do not actually have space to host regular meetings. Many office workers still take their meetings on Zoom because of this issue, which makes it even more confusing that we are asked to be at our desks each and every day to 'collaborate' when that mostly happens online.
This is an excellent idea to improve the resiliency of the City's workforce during disasters or other large shocks. Right now we get text messages and phone calls at 7 a.m. informing us that we must either make every effort to commute in dangerous conditions or take time off. Telework options will increase the number of staff working during the times when the city needs us the most.
I strongly agree. As a disabled person, it can be very challenging, unsafe and sometimes impossible to commute in NYC as not all subway station are wheelchair accessible or have working elevators. Teleworking helped me to increase my productivity and decreased my level of stress and anxiety, as I did not have to worry EVERY SINGLE DAY about how I gonna get to work safely or if the elevator near my workplace is working or not.
Bruh, can you edit to fix the typo? smh...
The current administration repeatedly states that they want to prioritize results and efficiency. So why aren't we reevaluating city employee working arrangements to accommodate a hybrid model? A recent NY Times article shows that only 8% work full-time on-site. NYC has employed the most extraordinary public-sector workforce globally, and we should innovate contemporary solutions instead of propping up the current working model since its status quo.
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