COVID-19’s Lessons for the New Government Workplace A new survey shows that public-sector employees are adapting to remote work and that many like it. It also reveals concerns that state and local government employers need to keep in mind. Robert J. Lavigna, Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement | December 10, 2020 | Analysis
The coronavirus has dramatically altered the work environment. Across the nation, in government and in the private sector, tens of millions of employees are now working remotely full-time.
Many employers and employees were unprepared for this massive change. The head of remote operations for GitLab, a software company that bills itself as having the private sector s largest permanently all-remote workforce with more than 1,300 employees in 65 countries, described the transition to working remotely as a process, not a binary switch to be flipped.