The mayor's office wouldn't offer a comment, but DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says my experiment illustrates the city's point: His department needs the ability to screen out folks who have other options.

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After the experiment, nearly half of the employees changed their minds and returned to the office and two-thirds of the employees who wanted to work from home changed their minds.

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In one experiment subjects were asked to judge scenarios in which the only difference was whether the employee was at his office desk or at home.

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