Return to office: State workers say looming mandate would cost more than money

For four years before the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Williams drove each day from his home in Elk Grove to the California Air Resources Board's office in downtown Sacramento - roughly a 30- to 50-minute commute each way.

California's army of state workers said in an informal survey by The Sacramento Bee that the price for in-office mandates are lost time, money and progress toward carbon emissions reduction goals.

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