Vermont Maintains Hybrid Work for State Employees Amid Return-to-Office Push

 While the Trump administration is calling federal workers back to the office, Vermont officials say they have no plans for state workers to return to pre-pandemic schedules. Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, this week said federal workers who didn’t return to the office will be placed on leave, the latest step in his effort to gut the federal workforce. The pandemic sparked a remote work culture and Vermont state government appears to be embracing the trend. Remote work schedules vary but a recent survey showed 57 percent of state employees still have some kind of hybrid arrangement. Each department, agency or even supervisor still needs to look at their employees’ work product, still needs to look at how productive they are.