Employees walk toward their cars on the state of Utah's Taylorsville campus on Jan. 10. Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday stopped short of saying whether he's going to order state government workers to return to the office full time. (Isaac Hale, Deseret News)

“Remote work has its place. But so does being together,” the governor said. “That’s another thing that we learned during the pandemic. It’s not healthy to be isolated. We need that feedback, we need that interaction that comes not just from doing your work.”

Changes to remote work could be coming for state employees in Utah. Gov. Spencer Cox told reporters at his monthly news conference Thursday that the state is looking at ways to save taxpayer money and will continue to evaluate the state’s telework policy.