{"id":99201,"date":"2025-08-26T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99201\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:12:10","slug":"city-of-ottawa-employees-returning-to-the-office-5-days-a-week-starting-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99201\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Ottawa employees returning to the office 5 days a week starting Jan. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ottawa says all of its employees will be required to work five days a week in the office starting in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>The city manager announced the move on Tuesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26075116-file-9107\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a memo to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe\u00a0and city councillors<\/a>. The change will take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 85 per cent of municipal public servants are already working in-office, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s announcement comes a week after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-public-service-work-from-office-mandate-remote-1.7608742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Premier Doug Ford ordered<\/a>\u00a0provincial government workers to return to the office full-time by January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Stephanson, Ottawa&#8217;s city manager, wrote in her memo that this &#8220;new standard&#8221; will help strengthen the municipality&#8217;s &#8220;organizational culture.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any alternative work arrangements will continue to be made in consultation between managers and their employees based on role, operational needs and available space,&#8221; she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Ottawa says all of its employees will be required to work five days a week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-99201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}