” think that Government would benefit from more at home workers”
I don’t know about that, but if they promised to stay off the roads during the time that they were “working”, the rest of us who do the actual work of the country would be able to spend less time commuting, and more time being productive.
I’d rather they be at home doing nothing than at work doing something just to appear busy. I’ve seen so many projects born out of no need of the citizenry but simply out of the need of bureaucrats to justify spending more money and acquiring more personnel. I think DC would especially benefit from this. It isn’t hard to tell which workers are useless no matter if they are home workers or not. The only difference between a bureaucrat working at home and one working at the office is that he/she can be diligently observed wasting tax payers money. They still don’t do anything about it. Might as well save the money being wasted to lease expensive offices in DC. (Tell me why they have to lease office space in DC?)