Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

[Mr Natural]

Reports claim the privilege is being abused.

What reports?

 

[rightwinger]

This is why I love IT, I have no reason to leave my home and my employer doesn't have to pay for expensive office space

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

 

[WorldWatcher]

Will President Trump's "Be In The Office" requirement apply to him?

How much time during his first administration did he spend away from his office, you now, the oval one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

WW

 

[Fang]

Horseshit.

According to a telework report released in August by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), more than half, or 54%, of federal workers work fully in person as their jobs require them to be at the worksite, such as Transportation Security Officers (TSOs), correctional officers, and food inspectors.

Employees who telework as their jobs can be done remotely still work. They, for example, field phone calls from customers or process benefits claims for veterans. In fact, telework eligible employees spend more than 60% of their time working in the physical offices.

American Public, Including Veterans, Will Likely Face Service Cuts If Telework Is Taken Away

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s plan to end telework in the federal government will likely backfire as a new report by a government watchdog found telework helps recruit and retain employees who provide crucial services to the American people.

www.afge.org

Trump voter here. I'm involved with the federal government and this 54% number is CLOSER TO REALITY than the OP's number. I don't know if 54% is spot on, but it sure as hell ain't 94% working from home.

No one denies there is a ton of waste in the federal government. I can list tons of things I see in my own office. But getting rid of the waste doesn't have to mean getting rid of people or work from home policies.

 

[Delldude]

Employees love telework because they don’t have to commute 1-2 hours 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

Empty office space costs the taxpayer's 15 billion a year in maintenance, leases and energy costs.... according to a recent report from Joni Ernst.

 

[rightwinger]

The "problem" with large-scale working from home is that it is nearly impossible separate the wheat from the chaff. Some employees are just as productive working from home but many are nearly non-functional. In a large bureaucracy like the Federal government, it is impossible for a supervisor to call out specific employees and tell them that, "YOU need to come into the office."

It is not hard at all

Rather than having to watch them work, you rely on what output they provide

Are their reports on time and professionally done
Do they respond to phone calls, emails, texts
Does the customer or coworkers complain about them
Do they participate in meetings, make suggestions, add value

 

[rightwinger]

Empty office space costs the taxpayer's 15 billion a year in maintenance, leases and energy costs.... according to a recent report from Joni Ernst.

Well said

Now the government can get rid of unnecessary space or lease it out

 

[Delldude]

Well said

Now the government can get rid of unnecessary space or lease it out

Then call them back to the office.

 

[Care4all]

The govt is worried about office buildings they own already going empty..... In the private sector, its a blessing and you simply sell off the building and cut the expense of heating, cooling, lighting etc and a mortgage if they still have one.

Some or likely most govt buildings are on govt complexes in DC, and you can't sell it off in the private sector for security purposes alone....

But you can close the building or two and consolidate office structures, eliminating heating, cooling, electricity, etc....

The emptiness of govt buildings has been going on for decades, with the govt contracting more govt work, in to the private sector.

 

[Care4all]

Then call them back to the office.

Why, it costs the govt MORE in tax dollars to keep opened?

 

[MarathonMike]

Whether they work from home or not, let's answer these simple questions:

1) What is the impact if that position is eliminated?
2) Can the job function be performed by an AI program?

 

[Delldude]

Why, it costs the govt MORE in tax dollars to keep opened?

So you're okay with 15 billion out the window?
That's 15 billion we could send to zelensky.

The govt is worried about office buildings they own already going empty.....

Leased according to Ernst.

 

[rightwinger]

Then call them back to the office.

Why call people back to fill unused space?
Makes no sense

Much of government office space is leased. In metropolitan areas (DC) that space is very expensive.

When the lease is up, lease less space

Otherwise, sell off unnecessary buildings

 

[Delldude]

Why call people back to fill unused space?

 

[Lisa558]

One of my neices is a retired nurse. For years she worked 3. 12 hour shifts but got paid for 40 hours. Big deal. Good for those who can get that.

A nurse is on-site and actually putting in the hours.

A fed “worker” claiming to put in 10 hours at home is scamming the taxpayers. All it means is that their computer is logged on while they take walks, have long personal phone calls, meet other fed “workers” for a 2-hour lunch, do a couple of loads of laundry, go the grocery store, and, in the most egregious abuse, actually play a 9-hole round of golf. Then, at 7 pm, they run upstairs and log off the computer.

Scam is coming to an end.

 

[Mr Natural]

A nurse is on-site and actually putting in the hours.

A fed “worker” claiming to put in 10 hours at home is scamming the taxpayers. All it means is that their computer is logged on while they take walks, have long personal phone calls, meet other fed “workers” for a 2-hour lunch, do a couple of loads of laundry, go the grocery store, and, in the most egregious abuse, actually play a 9-hole round of golf. Then, at 7 pm, they run upstairs and log off the computer.

Scam is coming to an end.

Is the work getting done?

 

[Care4all]

So you're okay with 15 billion out the window?
That's 15 billion we could send to zelensky.



Leased according to Ernst.

Then un-lease them....pay the out clause, then save the next 100 years of paying maintenance, electricity, heating, cooling, janitors, etc etc etc.

You CAN NOT blame remote workers causing all of this...

We have been on a mission to reduce govt size for decades, moving more and more and more, in to the private sector with contracts....



Pulling remote workers back SAVES THEM NOTHING in tax dollars,

It's simply a guise ON PAPER that makes them appear to be more cost effective for the building.

Think!

 

[Delldude]

Scam is coming to an end.

The Ernst report mentioned that baby food contamination issue couple years back, the initial report and response was delayed over 100 days due to work at home, revealed by a whistle blower.

 

[Lisa558]

Is the work getting done?

The work of a part-time job is getting done. Why should we have two feds each being paid a six-figure salary for a full-time job when the workload can be accomplished in half the time?

 

[Contumacious]

Outrageous: ​

94% of Feds Work From Home​

Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

The federal workforce is the equivalent of the Soviet Nomenklatura. The big difference between

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5 Dec 2024 ~~ By David Strom

The federal workforce is the equivalent of the Soviet Nomenklatura.
The big difference between the Soviet bureaucracy and the US federal bureaucracy is that a much larger percentage of the federal workforce gets the special benefits that were reserved for top Communist Party members in the Soviet Union.
The Daily Wire's invaluable reporter, Luke Rosiak, reports on the sorry state of the federal workforce and on the Department of Government Efficiency's determination to reform a broken system.

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Bureaucrats are so entrenched that many choose not to work at all, finding creative ways to fool the few tools the government uses to ensure that absent employees are actually doing the work they are supposed to.
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With a Republican trifecta--control over the House, the Senate, and the presidency, Republicans should be in a position to get rid of public employee unions, but don't count on this happening without a 60-vote majority in the Senate. Not only will Democrats fight and die on this hill--public employees are a key constituency of the Democrats and one of the secrets to their hold on big city politics--but chances are good that some Republicans will work to sabotage any attempt to rein in the power of government workers.
The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, and when you toss in state and local governments about 25 million are government employees, blowing away any employer in the private sector. That's a large chunk of the entire workforce and a powerful political constituency that is tied to other unions and nonprofits, all of whom would mobilize to protect their fellow union members.
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Government is perhaps the only industry in which the bosses actively reward inefficiency. Every time a government agency fails to do its job well, Congress rewards it with a higher budget to address the issue. In the private sector, failure usually leads to restructuring; in government, failure leads to larger budgets.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy understand this fact very well. The real question is whether the elephantine bureaucracy can stubbornly wait them out and use inertia to blunt their efforts to prod the agencies into reform.
I don't know who to bet on. Will two of the smartest minds in America win the battle, or the agencies whose specialty is protecting its perks and pay?

Commentary:
David Strom uses the term "Work" when referring to the bureaucrats working from home.
It's no wonder that anything done by the gov't turns into a clusterfuck. We pay these bureaucrats to work every day like the rest of us, but they fail to appear much less do their jobs.
They need to get their fat asses to work!! This should be very easy for Elon and Vivek to get rid of 50% of these lazy asshats!!
Obviously most even when at their desks were not working according to reports of illegal use of federal property accessing Porn sites.

They did everything possible to prolong the CONvid19 SCAMDEMIC in order to continue "working" from home