Kansas ‘back to work act’ would force state employees to return to offices - Butler County Times-Gazette

Kansas ‘back to work act’ would force state employees to return to offices - Butler County Times-Gazette

By Anna KaminskiKansas Reflector TOPEKA — The lunch rush in downtown Topeka’s restaurants and cafés hasn’t been the same since the COVID-19 pandemic, said Seth Wagoner, an investment executive. Thousands of state employees who once worked in office buildings in Kansas’ capital and frequented downtown businesses for lunch and happy hour now work from home all or part of the time. They could be called back to the office under proposed legislation.…