City manager defends return to office mandate for all staff

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City manager Wendy Stephanson defended her decision to mandate all city staff back to the office five days a week, saying she wanted to improve the culture, innovation and relationship-building with a return to the workplace. Article content

“The most important thing here at the city is that we’re providing excellent service to our clients and our businesses, that is our focus,” Stephanson said following the Aug. 27 council session. Article content Article content

“Making this change, we want to increase culture, innovation, relationship-building at the city in terms of people coming back to the workplace. That’s really important … This is really about a shift and change and embracing our culture and making sure that we are delivering that excellent service in the be