Posted on 06/20/2025 9:16:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa a response to an August 2023 request for a report on the effects of telework on the federal government, showing it increased by more than 500% during the Biden administration, the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively learned.
Ernst sent a letter to 24 government agencies requesting a review of the issues involved with telecommuting in August 2023, with some agencies refusing to send data during the Biden administration. Ernst told the DCNF that when President Donald Trump took office, things changed.
“While the Biden administration slow walked releasing the data to hide the true extent of telework abuse, the Trump administration has made a commitment to transparency in addition to getting bureaucrats back to work,” Ernst said.
In a letter sent to Ernst Tuesday, OPM Deputy Inspector General Norbert E. Vint claimed staffing issues at the agency delayed the start of the investigation by almost a full year. The report from OPM revealed that the number of employees engaged in remote work increased by 528% from fiscal year 2019 to fiscal year 2024.
OPM found multiple problems, including missing or lapsed telework agreements for 45.1% of workers, failed to address 21.1% of discrepancies within four months and that 8.1% of timesheets didn’t comply with the agency’s remote work policies. OPM also admitted that 58.1% of employees on telework agreements did not meet in-office work requirements based on “badging data.”
“Work from home policies under the Biden Administration lacked oversight and accountability the American people deserve,” OPM acting Director Chuck Ezell told the DCNF. “From missing agreements to inaccurate time reporting and failure to enforce in-office policies, these finding confirm even basic compliance measures were routinely ignored. That’s why, under President Trump’s...”
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Counting my time in the Corps, I’ve been a fed for just over 20 years. I swear to you, every terrible story you’ve ever heard about feds is true, probably worse than you’ve heard. I should post some stories... I think I will.
HOWEVER... There is a problem with this fed-telework narrative.
Every single non-gov, white collar worker I know, every single one, has been doing EXTENSIVE telework for YEARS. My wife was doing ONE DAY in the office per week for EIGHTEEN YEARS prior to COVID. As a fed, I never had ONE DAY of telework, not one single day, before COVID.
All my non gov white collar friends have similar stories.
Telework was not some scheme invented of, by, and for feds. Now feds are just about the only white collar people in the US without telework.
As a federal worker I retired at the end of 2019 so I missed the whole work from home thing....and a mandatory covid shot as well for that matter.
Talking to ex coworkers there seems to be two views, either people liked teleworking or they hated it.
One thing for sure, it’s just one more hot mess that resident taterhead and his administration created.
Federal workers have bad enough reputation without adding to it. SMH
“Way worse”? I guess grammar is no longer alive and well.
Just got here huh?
What federal agency were you with?
I have worked many years at home and many years teleworking.
For me teleworking was much more productive.
That said—competent management is the key—and easily measurable results are also key.
If managers do not know how to manage teleworkers then it is a disaster waiting to happen.
To those who say teleworkers can easily be replaced by folks from abroad my answer is simple—most white collar workers—whether in the office or teleworking—will be replaced by AI within a decade. Many will be replaced in the next five years.
Showing up at the office will not save them.
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He’s a federal employee....your
expectations may be unrealistically high
The person who wrote the article is a fed?
If “staffing issues” mean they hired a bunch of DEI chumps who didn’t do any work he might be right.
I seriously doubt that’s what ol boy meant when he said that, but I bet the useless sack said it with a straight face.
Never believe a bureaucrat’s claim that lack of staffing has kept them from doing their work!
“Telework” kind of defeats the purpose of even having many of these government employees in the first place.
Break it to me?
I’ve known that for 20 years.
NONE OF THIS IS A SURPRISE TO THOSE OF US WHO LEARNED HOW TO WORK YEARS AGO.
Work from home is a giant scam for most workers. It is open to widespread abuse and is far less efficient than working from the job.
I started Remote work in 2020. I retired Jan of 2024 but still went into the office every day. I am back working part-time about 4 hours a day but those 4 hours can come at any time of the day and night. WFH is not the great benefit that people think. Oddly, the remote people I know who set hard limits on working ended up back in the office with an RTO.
During Covid the company I was working for went to remote. I hated it.
ur rite.
English grammar is far worser than evah.
Somebody needta do somethin bout langwidge in this here cuntry.
Peoples is became really ignint.
So, just arrived from ....??
Look at me- a gov employ
I love to work at nothin all day
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