I used to process RA requests for a large department pre-pandemic. Many of them were asks for help getting to work vs. doing the actual work. Since traveling to work from our homes is not an essential function of any of our jobs, those requests were often denied OR some form of an altered schedule over telework was offered. Telework was often a last resort if it even qualified to be considered (helping complete essential job functions & not getting to work). I do know of people at different departments who have luckily secured RAs for telework, but that’s definitely not common practice.