Why would you bring everyone back? Most agencies demonstrated that employees can work on a rotating shift or remotely and it actually increases productivity.
Here, you could sell buildings or stop leases and save hundreds of millions per year. Go plug a hole in a budget with that, or fund pensions.
You’ve just gone through one of the most interesting sociological experiments in modern human history. learn from it and make the State a better place.
Somehow I doubt we’ve seen efficiency in state government. Is there software that is monitoring actual work time ? Maybe we will learn we need fewer employees except in the unemployment offices