Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

[Care4all]

We shall see what the "Department of Government Efficiency." says

In order to show he's serious, Elon should focus on all of his govt contracts first and cut govt contract spending with himself....before cutting other govt.

What do you think?

 

[d0gbreath]

I'd guess that half, or more of the people posting here during the day are at work.

 

[Lisa558]

And workers demanding higher wages will be increasing...

Let them demand. In DC at least, when the federal workforce is right sized and contractors are not renewed, there will be a lot of bodies chasing over openings, NOT the time to make demands.

 

[Delldude]

In order to show he's serious, Elon should focus on all of his govt contracts first and cut govt contract spending with himself....before cutting other govt.

What do you think?

Biden administration wasn't too Elon friendly, I doubt he's getting over.

 

[rightwinger]

Damn, you fed workers are dense. If they consistently finish their work in half a day, they do not have enough work. And the reason they do not have enough work is because the government has so many surplus employees that there isn’t enough work to go around.

And what makes it worse is that taxpayers are paying for all these surplus employees when we are running 2 trillions of dollars in the hole every year.

That’s coming to an end.

Again you display the mentality of someone on an assembly line.
Employees making $100,000 plus have a job to do.
You evaluate them on how well they do that job, results…..not how many hours it takes them to do it

 

[Lisa558]

Again you display the mentality of someone on an assembly line.
Employees making $100,000 plus have a job to do.
You evaluate them on how well they do that job, results…..not how many hours it takes them to do it

Oh please. If you have tons of Feds getting paid $100,000 for a full-time job that they all can do in five hours a day, YOU HAVE TOO MANY EMPLOYEES.

YOU have a mentality of a government worker, with no sense of…..well….anything.

 

[Care4all]

Biden administration wasn't too Elon friendly, I doubt he's getting over.

Try again....

 

[Delldude]

Try again....

Show me,........

 

[initforme]

Let them demand. In DC at least, when the federal workforce is right sized and contractors are not renewed, there will be a lot of bodies chasing over openings, NOT the time to make demands.

In the private sector as well. And I will always stand with the workers over the filthy management.

 

[Care4all]

Show me,........

10s of BILLIONS in tax dollars....And more.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth-government-help/index.html

 

[Delldude]

10s of BILLIONS in tax dollars....And more.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth-government-help/index.html

You need to read your article.......its not cut and dried by any means, your article even states that.

He received fed low interest loans getting off the ground...... remember Solyndra?

You should look into where government is wasting money and what has already been pointed out.

Both Tesla and SpaceX received monies early on......now SpaceX makes loads of money in Fed contracts with DOD and NASA.

That a subsidy?

 

[braalian]

Damn, you fed workers are dense. If they consistently finish their work in half a day, they do not have enough work. And the reason they do not have enough work is because the government has so many surplus employees that there isn’t enough work to go around.

All this management style leads to is employees deliberately not doing as much as they could and milking the clock

 

[Contumacious]

In order to show he's serious, Elon should focus on all of his govt contracts first and cut govt contract spending with himself....before cutting other govt.

What do you think?

Since the Swamp aka the Deep State aka the Administrative State has become a clear and present danger to the Republic and is controlled by the Socialist Demon Rats their immediate reduction in size ought to be DOGE's priority

 

[Delldude]

In order to show he's serious, Elon should focus on all of his govt contracts first and cut govt contract spending with himself....before cutting other govt.

You're funny.....he isn't contracting with the government, they're contracting with him to provide goods and services in the interest of national security.

 

[para bellum]

You're funny.....he isn't contracting with the government, they're contracting with him to provide goods and services in the interest of national security.

Well, both parties are entering into the contracts, so he is contracting with the gov't just like they are contracting with him.

EV subsidies absolutely helped Tesla sell cars. Musk is definitely the beneficiary of corporate welfare when it comes to Tesla.

SpaceX is way more efficient than NASA, and he has greatly reduced the cost to lift payloads into orbit, so that has saved a lot of taxpayer dollars.

Elon is very skilled when it comes to getting $$ from the Gov't one way or the other...

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

As a federal employee myself, I don't believe that. Only one person in our entire department works from home. Some people get to telework one day every other week, but that's it. In my previous federal job, which I left only nine months ago, telework was only authorized if the base had to close due to inclement weather, which was maybe three times per year.

I agree with that assessment. I live right outside a major military base and the traffic of civilians to the base never dropped from before COVID to today. In fact, it's worse. If most units are not deployed, you cannot move in this town for several hours', morning and afternoon. A good percentage of the soldiers live on base.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Well, both parties are entering into the contracts, so he is contracting with the gov't just like they are contracting with him.

EV subsidies absolutely helped Tesla sell cars. Musk is definitely the beneficiary of corporate welfare when it comes to Tesla.

SpaceX is way more efficient than NASA, and he has greatly reduced the cost to lift payloads into orbit, so that has saved a lot of taxpayer dollars.

Elon is very skilled when it comes to getting $$ from the Gov't one way or the other...

Trump is doing away with the subsidies, which will make Tesla even more competitive. Musk has been quoted as saying that the other carmakers will lose market share to him if they do. In the latter case, he won't be getting money from the government but new customers.

 

[para bellum]

Trump is doing away with the subsidies, which will make Tesla even more competitive. Musk has been quoted as saying that the other carmakers will lose market share to him if they do. In the latter case, he won't be getting money from the government but new customers.

I hope he does that. If it makes Tesla more competitive that means people think it's a better car, and that's fine with me.

It will also make ICE vehicles more competitive against EV's because they don't have to compete against a gov't preference...

 

[para bellum]

I live right outside a major military base and the traffic of civilians to the base never dropped from before COVID to today.

I wonder how many of those people are federal employees and how many are contractors.

People always talk about a "shrinking federal gov't", but they never mention the growth in contracting for the things that were previously done by federal employees...

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Employees love telework because they don’t have to commute 1-2 hours a day to work without pay. They also save on car expenses, train or bus fare, clothes, meals.

Employers are loving not having to provide office space and parking for thousands of employees

From April 2018 to April 2022 I spent almost my entire time working from 15:30 to 00:00 sitting at a computer just like I am doing right now. From March 2020 to April 2022, I did it from home almost all of that time period. I visited our office occasionally after the pandemic wore down, but we never returned to the office full-time until I had retired.

I retired when I could no longer keep up with the workload due to my illness. My supervisors could see I was not doing well but cut me slack because I was so sick often during the last few months. My own conscience got the best of me one night when I was struggling, called my supervisor and told him that I quit. My wife worked days from home, and she continued on until she could also retire at age 66. Her coworkers had long returned to the work site, but my wife was an exception because of COVID still being active, she could possibly carry something home that would compromise my immune system. This was fortunate as COVID Ran rampant through the company when they went back to work. There was never an issue with our working from home.