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Return to office is not some kind of unusual punishment | Opinion

Randall Denley: Most people work five days a week wherever their employer tells them to go. Public service unions overplayed their hand in complaining.

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From the standpoint of a person not employed in the federal public service, the raging fight over workers being compelled to spend four days a week in the office seems a bit surreal.

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