Mayor Parker calls for all city workers to return full-time, in person: ‘We are not a virtual administration’ [Video]

PHILADELPHIA – The Parker Administration is calling its senior staff back to the office full time starting Monday, March 4th with plans for all city workers to return, but it may not happen without a fight.

In Center City, the signs tell the story with ‘office space for lease’ signs along Walnut Street and plastered on a building on Market. The pandemic-prompted work-from-house craze, leaving offices empty, appears here to stay.

Center City attorney David Sorensen works from his home and the office. He said he “likes the mixture.”

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration seems to understand that for city workers, but it wants them back.

Tiffany Thurman, Parker’s Chief of Staff, said in an interview with FOX 29 Friday night, “we are not a virtual administration. We’re more of a water cooler administration.”

In a late Friday afternoon letter to 71 of the Administration’s senior officers, the mayor told them, and those …