With all the bad things of the COVID-19 Pandemic came the advantages.  One of the major advantages was the benefit, flexibility, productivity advances, and mental/physical health benefits of working from home. Major companies around the world, especially within the United States, prefer the benefit of employees working within their homes. In addition to productivity, flexibility, and work/life balance, it has also given employees the benefit of a hard day at work without harsh commuting issues in weather or other major hurdles. It has certainly benefited the operation of not just a person's personal life, but also a family's own home.

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A case in point is where an employee wakes up at 8:30am, turns on the computer in their sleepwear, starts work at 9am, takes a shower or does shopping during the lunch hour, works until 5pm, and at the gym once clocked out. On the weekend, is out the door, at the bar by 5:30pm the earliest, and then goes out on the town on Saturday and Sunday. This is the 20/20 vision that has benefited everyone.

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However, as this has proven to be worthwhile, Governor Hochul - with her delusional "fairy tale dream" - wishes every New York to go back to the office and work in even the most hazardous conditions as many employees and employers alike prefer hybrid or virtual models. Even in the most tightest of situations, virtual meetings - business and pleasure - have become productive and saves everyone money and unnecessary time and resources.

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Additionally, our region was proud to be designated as one of America's tech hubs, which will enhance the Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse regions.

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When in office:

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1. I will create federal legislation on making working from home a right for every resident, employee, and employer, including employers who want a virtual option available in addition to in-person office work, with massive funding and tax breaks for employers who want to remain virtual forever or have a virtual option available. To address employers demanding workers back in their offices while meeting the needs of workers working remotely, I will also work on a plan to have potential immigrants who apply for a work visa at a legal port of entry and complete a detailed, rigid background check to be able to work in person, along with English-On-Site training while they work, and a plan to have border job fairs in effort to work legally.

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2. To make a case  of the benefits of working-from-home - especially from an economic, productivity, and social point-of-view, I will work with Monroe and Orleans Counties (while in Washington), along with the neighboring congressional district, NY 24 and other localities on a local pilot plan to support, and encourage, all employers, small businesses, banks, local governments, 9-1-1 centers, telephone/internet and utility companies, small business owners, healthcare workers, power plants, and certain frontline workers, along with state employees and lawmakers who want (or even have) to go fully remote or hybrid temporarily that will lead to companies being permanently hybrid. This pilot would be part of a plan to make a strong case for remote and hybrid work in addition to in-person work, including the cost-saving benefits of office space reduction, technology upgrades, productivity enhancement, transportation benefits, and all resources as a whole. I will also work on creating pilot programs to allow employers to begin the projection of work-to-home headquarter assistance.

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3. I will ensure those who are homeless, trapped in the system, within addiction to drugs, or in full poverty will be given financial assistance for computer training (including expanding library hours statewide and flexible classes), internet access expansion, funding for transitioning from homelessness into home and office ownership/rent, and be given a chance to work full time without interference or the fear of the loss of a "voucher".

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4. I will allow a plan to ensure that Americans are afforded the right the right and opportunity to obtain and maintain a work-from-home job and the ability to receive assistance in training or other needs.

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5. I will work with all internet providers statewide to increase coverage and funding broadband expansion - including the expansion of FIOS, fiber optic, cable and wireless internet statewide. In Rochester, I will work with Henrietta-based Greenlight networks to expand their internet system in every corner of Western New York from Rochester and the Finger Lakes to Buffalo/Niagara and the Southern Tier, allowing local residents to have a second option and encourage competition against Rochester's current internet provider, Spectrum, and to give Verizon customers outside of the Frontier Telephone area a third option. In addition, I will work with Frontier (including their Fios services) and any out-of-market companies to bring their services to the Rochester area, and I will also work with Verizon to consider expanding services into portions of Rochester including TV services)

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6. Multinational companies who want to have a U.S company headquarters or other businesses who wish to relocate or open in New York and go completely virtual or hybrid would be given praise through a tax break to begin their business in NY 25.

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7. While working from home incentives will be expanded and offered to everyone (all residents, non-residents, the homeless, and pardoned convicts of the broken system), this will not be available to new immigrants under pilot programs. Those on the immigration pilot would be legally obligated to find, obtain, and maintain in-person employment within New York State to fill the ongoing shortages statewide. This will also not be available to those who are "essential" to life and property, including most first responders, those working as "hands-on" occupations with Developmental Challenges in certified settings, most restaurant workers and grocers, emergency nurses and doctors, and occupations that rely on road travel, transportation, or hand-to-hand tasks. Immigrants will also allow employers to increase in-person work to compliment work-from-home employees, increasing job growth and economic viability rater than decreasing job growth.

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8. All people with disabilities not only will be guaranteed the right to work from home in various roles (from self-advocacy to professional jobs), but will be encouraged to work from home and start hybrid companies, along with the blessing of a tax break for those with disabilities who want to start their own business in New York from their homes or apartments.

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11. Small businesses who want to have virtual roles (like online ordering or virtual call taking) would also be included in this plan. Likewise, any major facility (such as running a major grid from home) would also have the opportunity to be in the plan.

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12. For 9-1-1 calls, callers reporting an emergency would have the option to connect to the in-home or in-business situation through a webcam, security cam, or live streaming app or via Facetime on their iPhones or Android devices via a link, allowing rapid response time and accuracy to approaching the situation.

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Allowing full praise and encouragement on remote productivity, along with more expansion on employers and employees working-from-home and students learning-from-home will save New York Taxpayers billions of dollars annually, allow to invest in services and projects, allow for increase productivity, full creativity and innovation, allow a vibrant economic landscape with fresh smells for business opportunities and a full return to the future as promised with time.