Posted on 12/05/2024 5:24:09 PM PST by dennisw
“Just 3 percent of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, 6 percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote,” the report said.
A Republican senator is proposing a bill that she says would give the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency a head start on making government more efficient.
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has proposed the REMOTE Act, which will monitor bureaucrats' computer use and require agencies to report on the downside of telework, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
The bill would require that agencies review how much work remote federal employees actually do: including the “average number of logins made” by every federal worker and the amount of time spent on the federal network.
“The American people gave us a mandate to shake up business as usual in Washington and drain the swamp. That starts with getting the bureaucrat class to climb out of the bubble bath, put away the golf clubs, and get back to work,” Ernst said, according to Politico.
Ernst is the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus and has met with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to pitch her ideas, according to Fox News.
One of Ernst’s major proposals is to reduce the number of federal employees who do not regularly come into their offices.
Ernst recently released a report saying federal workers “have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers’ time.”
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Garbage deflection by the GOP-E. Telling the foxes to keep guarding the hen house is a waste of time and resources.
One of Ernst’s major proposals is to reduce the number of federal employees who do not regularly come into their offices.
Ernst recently released a report saying federal workers “have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers’ time.”
94% of Feds....
In other words “You need fear only if you are guilty.” DC becomes a ghost town.
Federal agencies monitoring their (shirk) work from home crowd is as rare as the dodo bird. My guess is any work they do is making useless reports with fancy technicolor charts and graphs. Going to useless zoom meetings.
Private sector work from home, you will be monitored for output.
In my entire career, I was measured on performance, not on hours spent. (Except when I'm paid by the hour as a consultant. My output needs to reflect that input, though.)
A manager that can't set up measurement of performance is not doing his/her job.
They also are going to cut social security unity and Medicare, which make up half the budget.
Ernst's big idea is to "monitor" the bureaucrats' computer usage as they work from home?
Why not have them ALL come in to work?
.......this is such bullshit! I have had over many decades several thousand employees on many projects. They will figure out a hundred ways to defeat any monitoring system.
The Covid fraud is done. Get your asses back to work or get fired!
When I worked in telecommunications we had someone get caught at a movie theater while they were supposed to be working remote.
Have you been there lately? It’s a ghost town. Downtown biz is hurting. No federal workers......
She is trying to save face from her confirmation decision. “they are mad at me, I have to do something they might like”.
No! No! No! This is how the Gope will kill DOGE. More meaningless BS proposals that will achieve nothing. The original proposal was show up to work or get fired -- the goal being to FIRE , not "monitor their productivity".
One trick is to open up Microsoft Word and find a way to keep the left or up arrow depressed. It keeps your computer from showing no activity and turning g on the screen saver.
Isn’t this the same woman trying to derail Hegseth ?
She’s up in ‘26. Making a name for herself.
Move all the departments, and have everyone punch in and out at the offices every day, with cameras monitoring everyone who leaves the building.
Where did you find this info????
Oh great. Another study that will go nowhere.
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