Message from my office:
Dear Colleagues,
Nineteen months ago on March 15, 2020, as COVID-19 was sweeping through the New York region, MTA issued a directive that all employees capable of working from home should do so. The vast majority of MTA employees, of course, continued to show up every day on the front lines of the pandemic – operating buses, conducting trains, maintaining stations and infrastructure, and offering customer service. Starting in January 2021, MTA employees received early access to the COVID vaccine, and many of us have since returned to our desks. It’s been a pleasure to see more and more of you come in since then, either on the A/B schedule or as directed by your manager.
While I am grateful for the ability of our office-based teams to have productively worked remotely, starting November 15, MTA employees will return to in-person work 100% of the time if they have not already. For several weeks now, the MTA has been conducting an effective campaign to welcome back our customers and ridership is creeping back up. Now it’s our turn to act on our conviction that it is safe to take transit, and come back to the office.
