Posted on 12/07/2023 1:30:26 AM PST by Libloather
resident Biden is facing criticism after a bombshell report revealed that all federal agencies are less than 50 percent occupied - wasting billions in taxpayer dollars - over a year after he declared the COVID-19 pandemic over.
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) memo to Sen. Joni Ernst, obtained by DailyMail.com, not a single federal agency has over half of its workforce in the office.
That's a staggering statistic since federal agencies spend about $2 billion taxpayer dollars per year to operate and maintain federal office buildings - and over $5 billion annually in leases.
The shocking findings comes after Biden formally ended the COVID-19 emergency back in May and his chief of staff urged the return of the federal bureaucracy to in-person work by the fall. He also famously declared the pandemic 'over' in September 2022, surprising members of his own team.
The data shows an 'estimated three-month average space utilization' statistics that were collected for 24 agencies during one-week periods in January, February and March 2023.
The agency with the greatest percentage of in-office staff for the three months was the State Department at 49 percent. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) took home the prize for the least space utilization (7 percent).
The Social Security Administration tied HUD at 7 percent utilization, followed by the the Small Business Administration at 9 percent. The General Services Administration (GSA) tied the Department of Agriculture at a measly 11 percent.
'The Department of Housing and Urban Development's abandoned building is a sad symbol of the failure of the Biden administration,' Ernst told DailyMail.com in an exclusive statement.
'Under Bidenflation, buying and renting is a whole lot more expensive, and instead of getting the homeless off the streets, no one is even home at HUD,' she continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m a federal employee working in a regional office (not DC). The unions have been successful at limiting return to the office and hybrid policies. So far, my agency is only requiring supervisors (not union protected) to return to the office, and only those who live within 50 miles of DC.
4 of my 8 direct reports opt to work in the office 1-2 days a week, and I also voluntarily go in once a week.
I think hybrid is best. The best of both worlds.
Our federal building is nearly empty and we are consolidating space at the end of the year.
A republican president would no doubt limit the union’s impact and require 2-3 days/week in the office for us. Under the Trump administration, we were required to be in the office 4 days/week.
...Department of Defense - 25%...
Huh? Why is the DoD "Main Headquarters Building Name" listed as "The Mark Center" and the address halfway to the beltway on 395?
How about lobbyists and fake news media?
Aren’t the DC area offices of NSA and CIA for analysts, not for the spies who are supposedly out there spying?
Send the Border Patrol to the Ukraine/Russia front lines.
Then they could learn how to do their jobs correctly.
I am not techy and have wondered about the computer access that people use for their work at home. Who pays for the network hook up and how is the security of the network and computer accomplished? Do you know? Thanks
The old joke needs to be rewritten then:
Q: How many people work there?
A: Oh, about half of them.
when Ed, Hud, and Epa are closed many more vacant offiuces.
No but I watch Nancy Drew and Penguin 6 and they walk and bicycle around just filming the entire area. Its a ghost town half the time.
They can use the empty offices to house illegal aliens. It won’t matter when they vote since DC votes 95% for the Democrats anyway.
NSA Headquarters is at Fort Meade in Maryland. Huge
complex there; large number of big satellite dishes,
big office buildings, armed guards, tall fences, etc.
They have other offices nearby in Jessup, MD at
Annapolis Junction and near BWI airport. Lots companies
that have contracts with NSA also have large fenced off
office buildings nearby in Annapolis Junction.
But I'm sure NSA has an office or two, or three,
or four in DC.
They aren't all out spying. There are LOTS of people and contractors (analysts, technical types, support, administrative) with desks in a bunch of buildings north of I-66 on the Virginia side of the NCR as well as the OCONUS Stations. They're probably exempt from reporting on who shows up.
Hard to believe State has that high a percentage. Every time I've gone to lunch at HST, the cafeteria is still no where near as crowded as it used to be and the food services overall have been cut because of the lack of people there. Those other agencies must be ghost towns.
Fire 50 percent of the employees. Those people who get a paycheck will then pipe up so we can know where they are working and what they do.
FTA: all federal agencies are less than 50% occupied
VPNs, Citrix, Government Furnished Equipment (GFEs) with PIV cards inserted into the computer, etc—and the employees pay for their internet.
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