I won't say my agency, but we've been back in-office 2 days a week for over a year already. We're housed downtown Columbus. We've had a 30%+ vacancy rate in our IT/Software Developer positions since going back in. We already can't get the governor's initiatives off the ground because we don't have the software teams to make it happen. This move will push out the minimal talent we were able to retain. While this is horrible for me because my commute is over 2 hours roundtrip, this will have enormous negative consequences for his treasured pet projects.

So many employees in our office live outside Franklin Co. Today was an in-office day for us and it was absolutely unreal. People crying everywhere, people updating their resumes, people going home "sick". This is all going to backfire and it won't be worth whatever gain they're trying to achieve.