LANSING – State of Michigan offices became more lively Monday as employees began returning to downtown Lansing.
State employees returned to their offices after nearly 18 months of working remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, though the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget did not have an exact figure available Monday afternoon of how many ended their stint as remote workers. Half of the state s more than 50,000 employees worked remotely during the pandemic, including roughly 20,000 workers in downtown Lansing.
State employees are expected to return to their offices gradually, depending on each individual department’s return-to-work plans, according to DTMB.
Michigan passed the 55% vaccination benchmark on May 10, paving the way for businesses to resume in-person work on May 24. Despite the reopening benchmark, the state decided to delay its return-to-work date.
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Cadillac Place, the 1.4 million-square-foot former home to General Motors Co. and now owned by the state of Michigan, is about 64 percent occupied with state workers, according to the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget.
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The Way Forward: The great remote-work experiment is likely to lead to a push to further decrease and consolidate the amount of office space taken up by state workers.
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