{"id":365450,"date":"2026-06-18T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365450\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:17:41","slug":"your-rto-questions-answered-by-our-state-worker-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365450\/","title":{"rendered":"Your RTO questions answered by our state worker reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently ordered state workers to head back to the office, primarily in person, starting on July 1.<\/p>\n

The order has been met with staunch opposition from state workers, from caravans<\/a>, to billboards<\/a>, the order has many people wondering: why now and what comes next?<\/p>\n

Luckily that\u2019s where The Sacramento Bee comes in. Our state worker reporter, William Melhado, will be answering all of your \u201creturn to office\u201d questions live in a Zoom webinar on June 25 at noon.<\/p>\n

Bring all your questions, concerns and thoughts and have them answered by Melhado, who covers issues that directly impact state workers, and he\u2019ll delve into how the order came to be and what\u2019s next for those expected to head back to the office in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

The event is free. Sign up for the webinar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After you sign up, you\u2019ll get a confirmation email from California Engagement and Retention editor Samantha Sullivan that will include a Zoom webinar link. This email also will include a button to add the webinar to your digital calendar. On the day of the event, you will also receive a reminder email an hour beforehand.<\/p>\n

You may submit questions prior to the webinar here<\/a>. You will also be able to ask any last minute questions directly in the Q&A function during the Zoom.<\/p>\n

Read some of Melhado\u2019s most recent return-to-office coverage below:<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published June 16, 2026 at 11:16 AM.<\/p>\n


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Kiara Adams<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Kiara Adams is a local engagement and retention reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She focuses on topics important to subscribers and produces newsletters while organizing community events and outreach. She is from Las Vegas, Nevada, but was born in Sacramento, and is a graduate of the University of Arizona.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently ordered state workers to head back to the office, primarily in person,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-365450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}