Surpise, surprise: 80% of CDC workers are still working from home trends now
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Most employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are still working from home.
The federal health agency, responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request said 80 percent of staff were still partially or fully working from home.
Dr Stephen Cochi, who worked at the CDC for four decades before retiring this year, warned remote work was making it 'almost impossible to get anything done'.
It comes as the agency lays off 3,000 scientists, comms experts and nurses that were recruited to help fight Covid.
The CDC is bucking the trend and continuing to allow most of its employees to work from home
When Covid struck the CDC signaled to all Americans who were in non-essential work to start working from home on March 18, 2020.
It has not since released updated guidance telling people that they should return to the office.
In August this year the agency cut the quarantine period for Covid patients from 10 to five days, saying this would bolster office returns. Four months later, it is still yet to rollback its own teleworking plans.
