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Posted on 06/21/2025 3:01:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Federal workers frequently violated work-from-home policies under the Biden administration, a government watchdog revealed in a report released Friday.
The “rampant telework abuse” was the result of “compliance failures and weak internal oversight” at former President Joe Biden’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM), according to the agency’s inspector general, which sampled the badging data, timesheets and remote-work agreements of dozens of federal employees.
“Under the previous administration, OPMʼs telework and remote work policies were mismanaged and oversight was virtually nonexistent,” OPM Acting Director Chuck Ezell said in a statement.
“That era of telework abuse is over,” Ezell declared. “At President Trumpʼs direction, OPM has restored in-person operations to ensure federal employees are working for the taxpayers.”
The report found 58.1% of employees sampled failed to meet minimum requirements for in-office work under Biden.
Nearly one-third (29.7%) had lapsed telework agreements, 21% had discrepancies in their paperwork and 15% did not have any approved agreements on file, OPM’s inspector general discovered.
The scope of the evaluation did not include determining the precise reasons for the noncompliance, but the OPM IG listed several possibilities, including “intentional fraud or abuse.”
“Weak or missing management controls” and “negligence or carelessness” by employees and supervisors were also listed among the possible reasons for the violations.
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File this under No s!!t
I am in a litigation support role that was 100 percent on-site forever. When we were sent home in early 2020 the management discovered th at those who goofed off at home were the same ones who goofed off on-site. On top of that, the automated tools and metrics answered a bunch of productivity questions. Oh, they also discovered that they could let go of some very expensive Chinatown DC and similar office leases.
I don’t think anyone is surprised by this.
Not just federal employees, worse with federal contractors as only the COR (Contracting Officer’s Representative) would supposedly be their federal employee monitor (LOL!) and they basically sign off on whatever contracting company invoices are submitted to them. The CORs in my former office got in trouble (and some were fired) for questioning dubious invoices. The contractors bill and in many instances make much more than federal employees. The contracting companies don’t care whether their employees show up to (or do any) work or not, as long as their invoices for the billed hours are paid.
Joe set the example
This is well documented. By the self admission of one, during and after COVID, working from home was total screw-off time.
Not a smidgen of work was being done by her team and she bragged about it.
And nobody missed their lack of work. Didn’t even raise a flag.
I think it was associated with USAID in some way, which is unsurprising. Their work wasn’t needed, it was only a huge money laundering endeavor.
Then, think about how many other parts of the Federal Government did exactly the same thing when they ALL worked from home.
Huge numbers of them did no work, didn’t report to work, and nobody even noticed. But their departments were still budgeted, and they still got paid.
Good gig if you can get it.
Work from home was abused.. No shit. That was a given to those of us who actually work.
No more tele-work from home!?
Back to calling in sick, long lunches, extra breaks, padding clock rings, and sleeping at their desks !
Look for, the Union label....
BTTT
Government jobs exist to provide a middle class lifestyle to otherwise unemployable adults.
This inspector receives today’s NSS Award...no shit Sherlock.
Yeah. I know a couple of people that worked at HUD. During COVID. I called a friend of mine during middle of the day. He was by the pool swimming and grilling out. Never thought he was a slacker. I don’t stay in touch with him any longer.
This is my shocked face.....
Yeah. oh BTWay, water is wet.
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