Eighteen months after the pandemic ended, nearly two-thirds of the country's 2.2 million federal workers are still approved to work from home.

Summary

Vivek Ramaswamy, alongside Elon Musk, plans to push federal workers back to the office full-time, aiming to reduce telework and downsize bureaucracy.

Ramaswamy claims requiring in-office attendance could lead to a 25% reduction in federal staff.

Critics, including federal worker unions, argue many jobs, such as healthcare and law enforcement, don’t qualify for telework and warn the move may hurt recruitment and retention.

Meanwhile, costly underused federal office space has drawn attention, with many agencies utilizing only a fraction of their space.

  • NegativeNull@lemmy.world
    55·
    2 days ago

    As always, this is just cover to force people to quit and not give severance. It’s a layoff without having to call it a layoff.

    • chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Its not going to work out the way they think it will, because government jobs have a good pension that you dont want to walk away from. This is just going to disrupt peoples lives needlessly and destroy morale.