Workers are coming back downtown—but not all will be there full time

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12 thoughts on “Workers are coming back downtown—but not all will be there full time

  1. I honestly think companies need to be very careful with this remote work from home as a norm. Theres some hidden flaws in it that I believe employers aren’t addressing. Like children are also home because of the pandemic.school and working outside the home forced families to adjust but since the pandemic now parents are forced to work from home and attend to their children for at home schooling, feeding the kids and other activities.Management and supervisors cant monitor and push productivity from employees if their not in the same office with each other.At the very least working from home should be limited and not the complete answer to companies financial answers.Just my humble opinion .

    1. Kevin P, So not trusting employees is the reason to make them come to work?? It seems like many employers are seeing the opposite. With all of the destractions at home the past year employees were even more productive than at work. No more coffee breaks, chats with the co workers, long lunches, water cooler chats about the game. Employees were able to focus on work with the occasional distraction.

  2. They totally left out that the downtown is a sewer pit because Democrats run and hide at the first sign of trouble and allow any progress to be burned and destroyed by BLM on a whim. A single arrest of a black person could cause the ruination of thousands, and not enforcing the laws will do the same. Downtown should be abandoned until our pathetic Mayor and City Council is gone.

    1. The only people buying this narrative are right-wing extremists in the suburbs. Most of the population is smart enough to see past this racist nonsense.

    2. Sure, James, like the Marion County GOP is going to find anyone to run for mayor. Their last election went so badly that you can now count the GOP members of the CCC on one hand. Like most other big cities, the Republican Party just doesn’t have any idea how to win elections.

      There’s a reason that the Indiana Legislature meddles in how Indianapolis is run, and it’s because the Marion County GOP is every bit as useless and incompetent as the Indiana Democratic Party is at the state level.

      Here’s how the last CCC few elections have gone for Republicans:
      2011: 15-14 minority while winning the mayor’s office
      2015: 13-12 minority with a map drawn by Republicans and the removal of at-large seats
      2019: 20-5

      Meanwhile, Indianapolis is the economic engine of the state. Kids around the state dream of moving to the Indianapolis area, if they stay in the state at all. Why is that if things are so awful?

    3. Typical excuses, downtown is in massive decline, it’s not leadership’s fault, it’s us in the suburbs. Going down with the ship as a diehard Democrat won’t stop it.

    4. Wow, if what I experienced during my afternoon walk around the canal/White River State Park/the zoo and more of the NW and SW quadrants is a “sewer pit,” I say bring it on. Gorgeous day, families out and about on those annoying-but-cut pedal cars.

      Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have to dive back into the sewer pit and run over to Needler’s.

    5. Wow, if what I experienced during my afternoon walk around the canal/White River State Park/the zoo and more of the NW and SW quadrants is a “sewer pit,” I say bring it on. Gorgeous day, families out and about on those annoying-but-cut pedal cars.

      Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have to dive back into the sewer pit and run over to Needler’s.

    6. I’m a Dick Lugar Republican, thanks very much. I think Eric Holcomb has done a pretty good job. He’s a fair bit better than Pastor Pence … and was the only Republican to get my vote in 2020.

      Meanwhile my Republican representatives who represent me are Jack Sandlin and John Jacob. Nor did I vote for Todd Rokita, who would use taxpayer money wiser if he lit it on fire. Go ahead and make a case for why either of those three should get my vote, or the vote of anyone who favors competent governance over political party.

      I’m all for the Marion County GOP running a real candidate in 2023 for mayor. Indianapolis will be better as a city with two real options for mayor. That’s what “stops” things.

      You can’t blame the Democrats that the Marion County GOP can’t run a political campaign. Their last two candidates have been awful – Brewer was in over his head and Merritt, as I noted, drug down the entire GOP ticket. How the heck can you not make crime under Hogsett a campaign issue? How on earth did Hogsett do better in 2019 than 2015 with that crime issue?

  3. “State employees are expected to return to their offices full time on Tuesday, said Eric Burch, spokesman for the Indiana State Personnel Department. All pandemic-related hybrid work schedules will end at that time.” – As current state employee this really pissed me off. They gave us no option because the older work force can’t use technology. Plain and simple.

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