#De Blasio says he’s working on bringing municipal workers back

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday he’s working on bringing the Big Apple’s 380,000 municipal workers back to their job sites as he urged private companies to start developing a strategy to get their employees back in the office.

“We’re going to start a plan as to when and how we bring back our city workforce that is working remotely,” de Blasio said during a conference call with reporters.

“Now it’s time to start moving more and more, but it should be sequenced so we see the impact of each action and make sure the data and the science confirm that it is time to take the next step.”

Hizzoner explained that bringing back the large-scale size of the city’s workforce in-person could have an effect on the progress the city has made against the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m not like most employers. I have 380,000 or so employees. When we move it has a very, very big impact so we have to be smart about our sequencing,” de Blasio said without providing a timeline for when plans to transition city employee’s from remote to in-person.

The mayor added, “The goal is to keep coming back, but always to do it safely.”

When it comes to private companies, de Blasio said, “I think everyone should start the process now of determining how to” safely bring back workers into the office.

“For a lot of smaller and mid-level employers, of course, start to bring people back as soon as you feel ready,” de Blasio.

Under the state’s coronavirus reopening guidance, New York office-based employers have been permitted to bring back workers at 50 percent capacity since Phase 2, but many have opted to continue to allow their staff to work remotely for the time being.

“I think employers should start, at least, making those plans now, getting ready to bring back those they can within the rules,” de Blasio said. “I think it’s a good thing to do, but everyone one will figure out the right timeline for themselves obviously.”

De Blasio said that after indoor dining begins in the city at 25 percent capacity on Sept. 30 and after the city’s 1.1 million students begin an in-person and remote learning schedule next week, more will be known about the effects the new burst of activity will have on the coronavirus crisis in the Big Apple.

“It takes a couple of weeks to see the first round of impact, a couple more weeks to see secondary impacts,” he said. “I think it’s fair to say we’re going to know later in October exactly what the impact has been of all of this new activity.”

On Monday, Stephen Green, founder of the city’s largest commercial real estate company SL Green Realty Corp., urged de Blasio to bring his staff back to the office to help jumpstart the city’s coronavirus recovery.

“I believe he should bring back his staff and the city tenants first. At SL Green we have 100-percent attendance, I think the mayor should lead that along,” Green told The Post at a ribbon cutting Monday for the 1,401-foot tall skyscraper One Vanderbilt in Midtown Manhattan.

Last week, the heads of more than 160 major corporations penned a letter to the mayor demanding that he crack down on crime and quality-of-life concerns so their workers could come back to the office.