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Federal workers are going back to the office — any year now
The Washington Post ^ | June 26, 2024 | Marc Fisher

Posted on 06/26/2024 4:12:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Last August, 3½ years after the pandemic sent millions of government workers home, President Biden’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients, told federal agencies to “aggressively execute” a pivot back to in-person work.

This January, Zients emailed Cabinet members: Agencies “are not where they need to be. ... I ask that you double down on your leadership to increase in-person work.”

This April, in a speech to the Economic Club in Washington, Zients said, “We don’t yet have the return-to-work levels that we should have across the federal government.”

This summer marks 4½ years since covid-19 altered the meaning and location of work for many Americans. Most people are back at their place of employment, most of the time. But government workers remain largely at home, so much so that 17 out of 24 federal agencies were using only about one-quarter of their headquarters’ office space last summer, a Government Accountability Office report found.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: covid19
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1 posted on 06/26/2024 4:12:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

If only Reagan were our President.

He’d have ‘em fired already.


2 posted on 06/26/2024 4:16:43 PM PDT by texanyankee
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To: texanyankee

Even if Trump is the President, he won’t be able to fire them.


3 posted on 06/26/2024 4:18:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only thing that keeps us from complete tyranny is the utter and complete laziness of government workers.

Stay home. It’s better for the USA.


4 posted on 06/26/2024 4:21:15 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Amounts given to campaigns by federal employees union:

Cycle
2024 Dem $1,395,893// GOP $613,996
2022 Dem $1,987,079// GOP $904,869

From Open Secrets website.


Article:
Federal Employees’ Political Donations Largely Went to Biden, Other Democrats in 2023
By Robert Schmad | January 05, 2024
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5 posted on 06/26/2024 4:28:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s not that employees are teleworking, it’s that the Federal government spent too much taxpayer money on useless office space.


6 posted on 06/26/2024 4:45:31 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I've never knew a job where one could dictate whether they wanted to come to work or stay home....must be nice....

too many fluff jobs in America.....too many arses sitting at desks.....doing something..

7 posted on 06/26/2024 4:47:54 PM PDT by cherry
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s cheaper to have the government employees do nothing at home as opposed to doing nothing in the office.

It’s time to trash to the empty government buildings.


8 posted on 06/26/2024 4:51:07 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: MeanWestTexan
The only thing that keeps us from complete tyranny is the utter and complete laziness of government workers. Stay home. It’s better for the USA.

The silver lining.

9 posted on 06/26/2024 4:54:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

When I was still working at the local base, before I retired last year, and the base commander allowed us to telework (one didn’t and he pissed off a lot of people), I was teleworking up to 32 hours a week. I loved it. I would report into the office each day for 2-3 hours, ensure everything that needed a “personal touch” was handled, then I went back home for the rest of the day. Of course it helped that I lived only 1.5 miles from the office. The boss was happy and that’s all that counted.


10 posted on 06/26/2024 4:54:40 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: cherry

A lot of these positions had telework negotiated as part of the contract. Those agreements can’t be changed until the existing contracts expire.


11 posted on 06/26/2024 5:03:27 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

There is nothing stopping a President Trump from shutting down the HQ buildings and moving the agency HQ to Dubuque or Omaha or—in the case of the EPA—the Aleutians.


12 posted on 06/26/2024 5:06:34 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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President Trump from shutting down the HQ buildings

Close them all down except for the FBI building. Convert the buildings to museums, hotels or universities.

13 posted on 06/26/2024 5:08:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I want the FBI building moved to the Everglades—let the snakes spy on the snakes.


14 posted on 06/26/2024 5:10:11 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Many of these buildings date from the 1960s and are probably best demolished.


15 posted on 06/26/2024 5:10:54 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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Many of these buildings date from the 1960s and are probably best demolished.

The FBI building is in really bad condition right now, but with all the other HQs, the Feds actually have spent money on them so they've been renovated recently.

16 posted on 06/26/2024 5:13:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Uh, methinks “Federal workers” is an oxymoron.


17 posted on 06/26/2024 5:16:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: MinorityRepublican

I know that if Trump is sworn in as our President, he will be immediately swamped with dozens of lawsuits, etc whether it be the concerning the border, Jan 6th, downsizing the bureaucracy, etc..

It’s gonna be a quagmire but there is no alternative.


18 posted on 06/26/2024 5:25:10 PM PDT by texanyankee
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It’s gonna be a quagmire but there is no alternative.

That's fine. It's our protest vote against the system before Gavin Newsom becomes President in 2029.

19 posted on 06/26/2024 5:27:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Feds won’t bring people back to the office because it will expose just how many positions are vacant. We have a government of outsourced work.


20 posted on 06/26/2024 5:36:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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