King County Executive Girmay Zahilay is actively working to enforce a mandate requiring King County employees to return to the office at least three days a week — something King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn has been demanding for a long time.
“There’s a new sheriff in town bringing employees back to King County so they can hang out around the water cooler and collaborate and do the people’s work and open up the permitting offices and all the places you need to go to get your documents and forms and everything else,” Dunn said on “The John Curley Show.” “Sadly though, they decided to protest and come into the office, which I appreciate, just because they didn’t want to come back into the office.”
In response to the mandate, roughly 75 King County workers packed themselves into the lobby of the county’s downtown Seattle office building Tuesday to protest the return-to-office requirement. Dunn referenced the public outcry in the comments of a Seattle Times article covering the protest, in which people wrote, “Wait, you don’t want to come in three days a week? That’s too much for you?”…