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Two stats in this article really jump out: > With fewer people in the office, the cost of excess federal office space has become a concern. Last year, the Gove
by koolba 2y ago
Two stats in this article really jump out:
> With fewer people in the office, the cost of excess federal office space has become a concern. Last year, the Government Accountability Office concluded that 17 of the 24 largest federal agencies used on average only 25% of their office space.
And the other was:
> As of August, 98% of Education Department employees were eligible to work from home and more than half were working remotely, according to the OMB. One of the agencies with the lowest office use rates, only 9%, was the federal government’s human resources agency, the Office of Personnel Management.
Those are crazy stats. I can understand that level of remote work for a company that is built for it from the ground up. But at the Federal government level that's a stretch.
It's not going to be difficult to convince the public that the intersection of federal bureaucracy and work-from-home is going to be rife with inefficiencies.
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- taylodl 2y ago> It's not going to be difficult to convince the public Because the public is more than happy to accept such claims without any evidence.
- thesuperbigfrog 2y ago>> I can understand that level of remote work for a company that is built for it from the ground up. But at the Federal government level that's a stretch. The 2020 pandemic happened and practically all jobs that could go fully remote did. After the pandemic ended, many jobs kept some level of remote work as an option. How is it "a stretch" to think that federal government desk jobs could be any different from private sector / corporate desk jobs in terms of remote work? If the desk job workers can VPN in and attend meetings over MS Teams, Zoom, etc. they can still work as they did during the pandemic. Just as is the case with many businesses (e.g. Amazon), return to office mandates are less about efficiency and more about control over workers. If remote work is less efficient, the business production metrics should show this. What do the business production metrics show? The same would be true for federal government desk jobs. Where is the data that supports this decision?