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Gavin Newsom warned of mass exodus from California as new policy sparks fury 76%
By Nina Joudeh75%
6/21/2026, 10:28:19 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, Anecdotal, and Hasty Generalization, with Self-Serving Bias as the most egregious example at 41.3% saturation with 184 hits. Analysis detected 999 faulty-reasoning hits from 446 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.6% and a BS Rank of 76% (5,345 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.60% of the article peer group.
California state workers are warning Gov.
Gavin Newsom could face a “mass exodus” after ordering employees back to the office four days a week beginning July 1.
The looming mandate has sparked backlash from workers who say they have successfully kept the Golden State running under hybrid schedules since the COVID-19 pandemic, KCRA3 reported.
The fight over Newsom’s order has grown so heated that a billboard along a Sacramento-area highway is warning motorists of future traffic jams tied to the policy.
“I feel like there will be a mass exodus.
I feel like the state needs to be ready for a mass exodus,” Anica Walls, president of SEIU Local 1000 — which represents state workers in Sacramento — told the outlet.
“We have individuals who have been teetering retirement, who look at this 4-days a week when they have been doing their job efficiently in a hybrid schedule will probably send them into a retirement,” she added.
State workers argue the governor’s sweeping mandate ignores years of successful remote and hybrid work arrangements.
“Since COVID, we have been working and doing the jobs and being efficient and doing the jobs to keep California running,” Walls said.
“I have heard from so many state workers from even the Bay Area all up and down the state who said this is the thing that matters the most to them,” said Democratic Assemblyman Alex Lee — who authored the measure.
“They don’t want to move.
They love their job, but they don’t, they aren’t willing to move after working 4-5 years in state service.”
The proposal would also require the state to create an online dashboard showing how much taxpayer money is being saved through telework.
Lee and SEIU have estimated remote work saves California up to $225 million annually.
When asked about concerns that state employees could misuse telework arrangements, Walls defended union members.
“I have no doubt that our members are in the spaces they need to be and to successfully produce and do the job that they are assigned to do,” she said.
“There is a lot of value in bringing people back to the office.
The ebb and flow.
The next generation of workforce.
There is a value in experiencing by observation.
Even me as the CEO, if I wasn’t here every day, there are things I wouldn’t notice or pick up or see in the office,” Robert Heidt, president of the Sacramento Metro Chamber, told the outlet.
“I can’t imagine that we can sustain an acceptable level of business and commerce with everyone remote.
It just doesn’t make sense,” he added.
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