Posted on 12/26/2024 12:01:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for a return-to-office mandate for federal workers will face stiff resistance and union contracts that guarantee remote work.
President-elect Donald Trump warned federal employees last week that they must return to the office — or else “they’re going to be dismissed.”
The threat was the latest and loudest signal yet that Trump, his allies and Republicans in Congress are committed to ending a remote-work culture that became widespread for the civil service of 2.3 million during the coronavirus pandemic but that many conservatives now decry as an outdated taxpayer-funded perk that has hurt performance across the government.
A quick return to pre-pandemic — or even stricter — federal office policies is not likely to happen with the stroke of a presidential pen.
Trump’s expected return-to-office mandate faces furious resistance from federal employees, many of whom are covered by union agreements that guarantee work-from-home policies — including some contracts extended in recent weeks by outgoing Biden officials eager to blunt Trump’s impact on the workforce.
About 56 percent of the civil service is covered by collective bargaining contracts, many of which include provisions for telework, according to federal data and union officials. A record 10 percent of federal jobs now are designated as fully “remote,” with the official workplace an employee’s home or rented space far from an agency headquarters or regional office. The General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, has also moved aggressively in recent years to shed costly excess office space as Biden officials kept pandemic policies in place.
“It’s in a lot of labor contracts,” Cathie McQuiston, deputy general counsel at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing federal workers, said of the telework arrangements. “And at a lot of these agencies, the reality is, they don’t have the place to...”
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The evaluations and firing comes after they come back to the office. If they quit or get fired for disobeying management it’s easier ;)
That worked for the Air Traffic Controllers. It should work fine here.
That worked for the Air Traffic Controllers. It should work fine here.
Showcase the number of security breaches since doing work from home.
Showcase the amount of increasing backlogs since doing work from home.
Showcase the number of position deletions to come.
DEI deprogramming training musts be done in person at the office and please bring your computer when you come in.
If working in an office is part of the paycheck, then they either comply, or find another job. It’s as simple as that. If they reporting to the office prior to the lockdown, then they need to go back to the office. Working from home was only meant to be a temporary situation, just like “two weeks to stop the spread” was.
That’s funny because they are all taking the office at home 2106 form deductions. 30% of mortgage, auto use, insurance, taxes, utilities, etc... from their 1040 returns. (Required home office).
Insubordination will/can not be tolerated.
Why would this be hard? He is talking about cutting back the workforce.
Before I retired, we were on a Zoom call for work. One of the guys was a rather obese man, and was sitting there in his underwear, legs spread. Nobody told him, but there were many personal IM's between all the other participants.
They need to pay all Federal employees based on their productivity.
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“Covid” didn’t do the damage...it was the leftist control fascists imposing their lunacy and demanding people bow down. ALL who were such fascist controllers should be fired and shamed and shunned.
Many Federal employees like higher locality pay. For example, an Federal employee in the Washington, DC area earns aa extra 33.94% over base pay. No locality pay for employees who telework.
Clear all these agencies out of DC. If they want remote relocate to Alaska.
Trump should give everyone 30 days to show up to the office in Washington, D.C. Failing to do that, Trump should transfer every employee to U.S. Office of Personnel Management, they will be fired once the lawsuits are exhausted.
I figure that 10% of the federal employees will actually show up to the office.
“ They need to pay all Federal employees based on their productivity.”
At least their productivity should be monitored and accounted for. Private sector employers have been doing this for decades. Is monitoring software being used for federal employees who use a computer all day?
Monitoring how much time the computer is being used is not good enough. Apparently there is software that will automatically move a mouse every so often to make it seem like a person is using the computer.
The government recently lengthened the required time the seat beat warning buzzer stayed on based on a study saying it would save 50 lives. We need to fire everyone associated with that decision and given them a two-week training course on learning to code.
Yes, there is. Productivity must be tasks successfully completed. And there has to be a standard of how long different tasks should take.
I have a friend who handles customer service calls for Amazon. She works from home, but her productivity is closely monitored.
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