Vermont’s return-to-office order is an insult

This commentary is by Kate Lucier, who was a state employee for nearly 14 years. She lives in Underhill.We rarely see the perspective of public-sector employees spotlighted — or even considered — in media reports about the state workforce and the decisions impacting it, but the voices and experiences of Vermont’s state employees should have received much more attention in the past year as lives were upended and employee morale decimated. As a former Vermont state employee, I a