It is time to get back to work in the office.

That’s the message from Premier Doug Ford to tens of thousands of Ontario public servants as widespread pandemic-era “working from home” will end as of January.

“Half the public service is already at work five days a week — and I want to thank them — and I just look forward to having everyone back to work,” Ford told reporters Thursday in Pickering.

“How do you mentor someone over a phone? You’ve got to look at them eye to eye, over the water cooler, wherever train them, camaraderie — plus the economy,” said the premier, noting most private-sector employers are insisting workers return to the office.

“I just use downtown Toronto, for example, the PATH. There’s hard-working entrepreneurs (whose) businesses basically just died when they weren

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