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GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! This could be the end of everything. So why don t we go? So why don t we go somewhere only we know? LET S GO TO PRESS.
IN LOCAL NEWS:
• Portland Commissioners Dan Ryan and Mingus Mapps are joining Mayor Wheeler (and against Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty s wishes) for a slow rollout of the Portland Police Response program which provides a non-police response to those in mental crisis or emergency calls about the homeless instead of immediately instituting it citywide. Local advocates see it as just another excuse to delay the police reform that the city council has already promised.
Washingtonian Journalists Protest CEO’s Back-to-Office Op-Ed With Work Stoppage
Cathy Merrill called for employees to be demoted if they won’t come into the office after months of remote work
Lindsey Ellefson | May 7, 2021 @ 8:10 AM
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The editorial staff of the Washingtonian will not be publishing on Friday in protest of an op-ed from the company’s CEO that called for them to return to the office or face penalties. CEO Cathy Merrill, the CEO of Washingtonian Media, wrote that employees who don’t want to return to the office consistently may be demoted from staffers to contractors, losing status, money and benefits.
May 7, 2021
Editorial staff members at Washingtonian are refusing to publish online on Friday after the D.C.-based magazine’s chief executive wrote an opinion piece about the future of remote work that generated an immediate backlash.
Cathy Merrill, the chief executive of Washingtonian Media, wrote in The Washington Post on Thursday that she was “concerned about the unfortunately common
office worker who wants to continue working at home and just go into
the office on occasion.”
Ms. Merrill wrote that by choosing to continue to work from home, employees are offering executives “a tempting economic option the employees might not like.”
‘Washingtonian’ CEO Apologizes for Op-Ed ‘Threat’ to Staffers’ Jobs if They Don’t Return to Office Maxwell Tani
The CEO of
Washingtonian on Friday morning apologized to the magazine’s staffers for a
Washington Post op-ed in which she appeared to threaten her employees’ job status should they not return full-time to the office upon reopening.
In a Thursday afternoon
Post op-ed, originally headlined “As a CEO, I want my employees to understand the risks of not returning to work in the office,”
Washingtonian CEO Cathy Merrill argued that in-person workers are likely to be treated more favorably than those who chose to continue to work remotely.