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.
Are there that many remote government jobs? I checked at the beginning of the Biden administration and all of them required me to be in the office and in *shudder* business casual
A government building I visit regularly has a help wanted that claims the government is a leader in innovative solutions like telework meanwhile, the workers in that building have to work weekends in the office too!
And, of course, telework is actually is strictly forbidden at my location.