Not that I in any way approve of their service,or self repair philosophy...
Posted on 10/29/2023 1:07:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The GAO found that federal offices have challenges like the private sector. In comparing building capacity to employees, none used over 50% and some used only 9%.
WASHINGTON – The Agriculture Department is headquartered at the gateway between Washington and Virginia in a building rich with history – but on any given day, roughly 90% of it sits empty.
That’s not an anomaly.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed two dozen federal agencies and found they averaged a roughly 80% vacancy rate during the study period earlier this year. Not a single agency topped 50% use, GAO reported.
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The work-from-home boondoggle.
“The Agriculture Department”
Move it to Moline.
Are they also tracking and accounting for the money saved?
Illegals, come on down. Room service and premium TV are on the way.
Suddenly the press develops curiosity. 😅
I think they are probably waiting to offload them cheap to just the right person.
Cool! Fill ‘em with “migrants”. /spit
Frankly I’d prefer them empty rather than full of unelected bureaucrats.
Most of the two dozen agencies studied by GAO didn’t provide official responses to the report.
Not Davenport, Bettendorf or Rock Island?
I’d at least want a bigger office, then.
Woo-Hoo! Now, if we can get just the other 20% cleared out!
Not that I in any way approve of their service,or self repair philosophy...
In the office, at home, or traveling on the road, most of them are dedicated to spending 100% of their time harassing taxpayers and making life worse for most of us.
I know of a building, that once had a lot of one-person offices, and many two-person offices. Basically — everyone had a desk. And a file cabinet. Do you want to have a meeting in my office? Sure, I’ll be over at 10 AM.
Then COVID. Everyone went home. No one allowed in the office.
Then COVID “ended”. Coming back into the office was not mandatory, but it was strongly suggested.
But, in the meantime, the whole building had been renovated. Only a few (very important!) people had one-person offices. And no one was in a two-person office. Instead, there were a moderate amount of 8 or 10 person “bullpens”. You can request a desk for the day in a room that had a vacancy. And you can sit elbow to elbow with lots of other people — and they ARE ALL ON THE PHONE HAVING A MEETING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE FAR AWAY. It’s not conducive to work.
Would you like to have a meeting in my office? SURE! I’LL BE THERE AT 10 AM! WE CAN DISCUSS THINGS! HOPEFULLY BILL WON’T BE SHOUTING INTO HIS PHONE LIKE HE WAS LAST TIME!
In that sort of new environment, no sensible person chooses to work in the office.
Except with the guv, all could continue pretty much as usual by just RIFFing that 80%.
“the money saved?”
O man is this an other joke thread ..
I love joke threads ....
do an other one ....
market forces aren’t in play when it comes to deep state
Think I’ll squat in a govt. building. I can hold meetings with muni bond investors and convince them to invest in my government project.
What’s not to like? The meeting will be in my government office in a government building.
To be honest, when I worked for private industry, there were also many empty seats.
They kept these seats for in reserve for expansion.
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