As Bruce Engel walked to this office along 8th Street in downtown Sacramento on Wednesday morning, he took notice of a change.
“I park at Southside Park, and there were more people parking than there were last week or last month,” said Engel. “Yes, I have noticed a difference.”
Amy Mey had a different take.
“I haven’t seen any tougher parking yet, but I think we will next week (after the holiday), when there’s going to be more traffic, I will say that,” said Mey.
Their differing perspectives offered a glimpse at what the first day of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate for state workers to begin returning to the office four days a week looked like in downtown Sacramento.
On the freeways, there were no major issues or unusual congestion spots during the morning commute.
However, Jackson Cooke, who is interning at a private business this summer, said today was a bit different than recent days.
“There definitely, yeah, streets do seem more crowded for sure,” said Cooke.
Others who preferred not to be identified, but confirmed that they were state workers, said they noticed more street parking spots taken earlier than normal.
This return-to-office order comes days after Newsom said he was not backing down on his decision.
Recently, the largest state workers union—SEIU Local 1000— warned that this order could cause a mass exodus of employees from California’s workforce.
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