OK, so <i>state employees</i> would be hard-limited to 8h/week... But why does that policy need to be codified into <i>state law</i> across all possible state employees and agencies, and not just a policy decided by different agencies or offices or managers?<p>I can't help but feel there's some hidden agenda by whichever anonymous Ohio legislators introduced the provision into the bill.<p>____<p>Found another article [0], which says:<p>> Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) said the suggestion to force state workers to return to their offices came from a member of the Ohio House. Huffman didn't identify that member. The provision was not part of the House version of the budget.<p>> [...] Huffman said 10 years ago, when he was in the House, if he had an issue with someone at the Ohio Department of Education, he could walk over to their office and talk to them about it. He said that's not the case anymore. There are times when issues cannot be resolved with a phone call, Huffman also said.<p>Sounds almost as if the legislators don't like teleconferencing, and miss their ability to go throw their weight around in person at the capitol.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2023-06-20/state-workers-might-not-be-able-to-work-from-home-as-much-anymore-if-senate-budget-provision-passes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2023-06-20/sta...</a>
> If the measure survives, Ohioans who work for the state of Ohio would be limited to only eight hours of remote work each week.<p>The amendment limits remote work for Ohioans <i>working for the state of Ohio</i>. Probably still silly and short-sighted, but not as bad as I was imagining.
It's not mentioned in the article but the language is such that state employees are limited to 8 hours of working from home. Coffee shops, a neighbor's house, restaurants, all fine.
Question: Are state employee pensions considered income earned in the state the employee worked while earning it? Or can they move out of state and avoid state income taxes? Should they be able to?
This applies only to employees of the state:<p>> Ohioans who work for the state of Ohio would be limited to only eight hours of remote work each week<p>Seems like a pretty arbitrary thing to set in stone.
"Prohibits state employees from working from home for more than eight hours per forty hour workweek for the time period beginning October 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025."<p>As @kesslern stated earlier, coffee shops are totally fine still, as are libraries, other people's homes, even the parks...<p>This is why we should never allow politicians to get involved in politics.
during an adjustment phase of residential real estate in the continental US, maybe around 2008-2010.. one of the very few places in the entire US where home prices fell, was in Ohio.