Despite Mayor de Blasio's assurances that city offices would be safe to return to May 3 and the 80,000 employees who had been working remotely since last year would be more productive once back inside their agencies, skepticism abounded among some union and elected officials, as well as workers who protested the mandate two days earlier.
During his weekly interview on WNYC April 30, the Mayor said, "We do not find that people are more productive at home. We find that people are more productive in the workplace, and we are public servants...people need to come back because we have work to do, to bring this city back."
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