Mayor Eric Adams is expanding a remote work opportunity pilot program to more New York City workers.
Remote work is now being extended to about 16-thousand five hundred non-union city employees. Mayor Adams says the two-year-pilot will allow them to work up to two days a week remotely, depending on their job performance and specific duties.
"Public servants deliver for New Yorkers through the city’s most urgent crises, and now it’s time for us to support them as they have supported us."
The policy had already been in effect for various unionized city employees as part of recent contract settlements. Adams who was once resistant to remote work calls the move a critical tool for recruiting and keeping top talent.