City Staff Ideas Challenge
#nycspeaks2022 Share your ideas for bold actions the Mayor should take
We are a hardworking city of innovators, and leaders. Speaking on behalf of my fellow city workers, we have proven that we can be productive during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, so lets adopt a flexible approach.
A common sense hybrid work policy will restore equity, quality of life and respect to NYC’s dedicated civil servants. It will retain the amazing talent the city workforce has, even as many consider leaving for so many other opportunities that do offer telework.
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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.
Cyber is not able to WFH - this changed a few months back. Not sure about FISA.
I don't know about FISA but non-Mayoral agencies get to make their own policies, and I believe FISA is non-Mayoral.
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 am ashame to say I work for this city knowing I can’t even afford my bills. You want city workers but you don’t want to pay them.
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.
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.