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Hayward staff, residents press council to keep hybrid work policy after city manager directive
Summary
At a special joint meeting April 15, more than a half-dozen Hayward city employees and residents urged the City Council and City Manager to reconsider a recent directive requiring all staff to return to the office full time, saying the change would harm morale and work–life balance and asking for collaborative, data-driven alternatives.
More than a dozen speakers at Hayward’s April 15 joint City Council and redevelopment-successor-agency meeting urged the council and City Manager Alvarez to preserve hybrid work options after an email directive required staff to return to the office full time.
The pleas came during the meeting’s public comment period, when city employees described how a permanent hybrid policy established after the COVID-19 pandemic had become an important part of recruitment, retention and daily service. “I was disheartened to receive an email from the city manager yesterday directing all staff to come back into the office full time,” said Elizabeth Lisonbee, senior planner in the Development Services Department. “The decision was made without consulting staff.”
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