(Sacramento, CA) — California state employees are being required back in office. Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Wednesday that all state employees are now required to work at least two days a week in office, beginning in June.

Cabinet Secretary Ann Patterson cited the dwindling COVID pandemic as the reason, with a standard policy needed for over 100-thousand employees.

U.S. Census data released in February found that roughly 15-percent of American workers are fully remote, a number three times higher than before the pandemic.