The flood of workers at the main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused extreme traffic backups and other delays Monday morning.
Employees said driving the last two miles took as long as 40 minutes. One said a CDC administrator greeted employees coming back with a card that said: “YOU ARE APPRECIATED!”
Many CDC employees began working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Trump administration ordered employees living within 50 miles of the office to show up in-person starting Monday.
As Atlanta’s CDC workers return to office, expect more traffic and less parking
Many of the employees have been dreading the return, in part because the CDC in the last few years has been reducing the amount of office space it leases in the Atlanta area, meaning fewer desks and parking spaces…