Start the Federal Govt slashing: Senate Investigation finds only 6% of federal employees work from office full time

Then bulldoze the shit.
Probably much more costly that selling it, renting it out or repurposing it, but yes, though crude, demolishing it is certainly an option given you get permission etc.
Then you can go learn to code.
That's what I do, that's what I've done for fifty years and that's why I understand why work from home is a net benefit and you don't and that's because you don't have a thinking job and that's because you can't think. :auiqs.jpg:
 
So tear the building down. Hire laborers for $100 per hour to get rid of it. Problem solved.
The building I was referring to is 12 years old and I don't think tearing it down so lazy people can work in their pajamas is a very sound idea....
 
Too bad. The rest of the country has done it. Time for feds to start working full-time jobs.

If they can find a private employer who will allow WFH, they are free to apply.
Sucks for the rest of the country. This is literally just crab mentality. "I have it bad, so I'm gonna make sure others do too." Why don't you just find a public sector job? You know, it's funny. My whole life I always heard people talking about how much worse public sector jobs were than private sector, and yet, having worked both now, it's no contest. Private sector doesn't even come close.
 
Sell the buildings, why is this such a major concept that we need Musk to step in?

I work in private industry and they have long since cancelled their lease and we work from home as the preferred model. No office costs, heating/cooling costs, no cleaners, no sick bay, no communal toilets to maintain, no canteen, no supplies room, no security guards, costs...

I am more productive working at home, since you do not know what my job is or anyone's job is, how can you assume that a person is always more productive in an office than at their home? Explain, please how can you determine productivity of a person when you have no idea what their job is?

Consider a composer or artist (for example) do you think they would be more productive by travelling in busy traffic for an hour, trudging upstairs and sitting at a piano with other busy people coming and going, followed by the trudge home?

Or do you think they are more productive by walking to their own studio and doing their composing in the comfort and serenity of their own property?

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Why not compel Williams to get in his car every day, trudge through traffic and rainy sidewalks and so on, and stop this lazy goofing off "working" at home like a lazy deadbeat and work like everyone else!


Sell or repurpose the buildings, they'd be ideal for temporarily housing all those migrants that are going to be rounded up, a lot cheaper than building some huge facility - are you really this inept?
I'm not an idiot... I know companies are bringing their workers back... I don't care what kind of anecdotal crap you find on the internet... they don't want people working from home anymore...
I have a good idea... fire half of them keep the building and fill it with dedicated people who value working for the tax payers...
 
We can do both.

1) There is a horrible overstaffing throughout the government, which allows “workers” to stay at home and put in half-days. Once they are required to return to the office and put in full days, at least one-third of the jobs can jobs can be eliminated. Many of these will happen by “workers” refusing to come into work.

2) Then, office workers can be consolidated in fewer office buildings, and thus 100 or so of the 287 (!) federal buildings can be sold.
A lot of people need to go but allowing the rest to work from home is just not workable...
 
Sucks for the rest of the country. This is literally just crab mentality. "I have it bad, so I'm gonna make sure others do too." Why don't you just find a public sector job? You know, it's funny. My whole life I always heard people talking about how much worse public sector jobs were than private sector, and yet, having worked both now, it's no contest. Private sector doesn't even come close.
1) I’m retired.

2) The point is that the government operates in a deficit, and has redundant staff by the tens of thousands (at least). Why should taxpayers have to pay all these part-timers full-time salaries?
 
Pandemic is long over
Well if they can force people to take experimental drugs, then the least they can do is improve their working conditions. Unless people are straight up not doing their jobs, I don't care if they work from the office, from home, from under a highway bridge, or from a tunnel network in a jungle.
 
1) I’m retired.

2) The point is that the government operates in a deficit, and has redundant staff by the tens of thousands (at least). Why should taxpayers have to pay all these part-timers full-time salaries?
While your concern is understandable, and I even agree to some extent, it has little to do with work from home. I'm not a part time worker just because I'm doing my job from home as opposed to doing it in an office.
 
That's what I do, that's what I've done for fifty years and that's why I understand why work from home is a net benefit and you don't and that's because you don't have a thinking job and that's because you can't think. :auiqs.jpg:
Well, then get a job in the private sector, where you'll at least be adding some marginal value to the productive economy.

You.....aren't....indispensable.
 
I'm not an idiot... I know companies are bringing their workers back... I don't care what kind of anecdotal crap you find on the internet... they don't want people working from home anymore...
Some are I'm sure but how many? 10% 70% how many?

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So 56% and increasing? how does that tally with " I know companies are bringing their workers back"?
I have a good idea... fire half of them keep the building and fill it with dedicated people who value working for the tax payers...

What problem is it, that you think this would solve exactly? Give us the problem statement that your suggestion is a solution to.
 
Only 6% of federal employees work from an office full-time, and a third are fully remote. And some aren’t actually working when they “work from home,” a Senate investigation found.

“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus and the report’s author, wrote.

“Just three percent of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, six percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote,” the report states.

Government office buildings have an occupancy rate of only 12%, yet the government spends $16 billion a year to operate them. Even the head of the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, works from home in Missouri.

“You may be more likely to see a ghost than a bureaucrat haunting the halls of some government buildings in Washington, D.C. these days,” Ernst continued.

And here we go. Our federal government is a bloated cesspool of waste. Elon and Vivek ought to have a field day right out of the gate
Does that apply to the President or can he work from home regardless of the expense of maintaining multiple offices for his use and having him and his staff commute by Air Force One?
 
Get skilled so you are wanted and use your skills to leverage against your employer. If they want your services they will cater to your demands. My son is retired at 54, working 10 hours per week. He told the HR person either I work from home or forget it. So he puts in 10 hours per week from home. The rest of the time is his. Winning. And 54 is not too early to leave the workforce.
 

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