Questions about DOGE and RTO

[Anonymous]

1. Managers telework too. Will they have an incentive to implement or strictly enforce any RTO policy? Or will Vivek hire armies of HR and IG lawyers to enforce it (which would be ironic)?

2. Under Vivek’s plan, will employees be required to work their full 8 hours in the office?

3. What happens to employees who don’t comply?

4. What if CBAs currently in place permit greater telework than Vivek wants?

[Anonymous]

No one knows the answers to these questions.

[Anonymous]

Please stop.

Elon and Vivek do not work for government. Stop obsessing.

[Anonymous]

The only ability to change telework / RTO policies rests in EOs, agency leadership, or Congress, depending on the agency, bargaining unit status, and CBA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one knows the answers to these questions.

Devil’s in the details. It’s fun to tweet and troll — until you have to IMPLEMENT. But people like him aren’t used to implementing — they just draft fancy PPT slides that collect dust.

[Anonymous]

There is no plan.

It is an outside commission that lacks the ability to make rules or eliminate funding. All it can do is recommend.

They are bound by OPM rules and the separation of powers.

My prediction is that they will realize how complicated government is, make some stupid decisions, and run into Congressional opposition when they want to cut someone's pet project.

[Anonymous]

what about bargaining unit positions?

[Anonymous]

Relax. This isnt coming to fruition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one knows the answers to these questions.

Devil’s in the details. It’s fun to tweet and troll — until you have to IMPLEMENT. But people like him aren’t used to implementing — they just draft fancy PPT slides that collect dust.

Yes, outlines of plans.

[Anonymous]

Let’s just see how it plays out. All this speculation is a waste of time and energy.

[Anonymous]

I think it will matter more who the head of your agency is and their feelings on RTO. I expect there will be pressure to have people back in the office more but it will be up to the agency heads what that means exactly. Just like it is now, different agencies will have different rules and expectations.

[Anonymous]

CNN - Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/politics/doge-remote-work-federal-employees/index.html

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as a way to help reduce the federal workforce through attrition.

Both Musk and Ramaswamy have recently publicly lamented the number of employees working remotely across the government.

A source familiar with early discussions about the focus of DOGE, as the initiative is known, told CNN that while nothing is final, early priorities include an effort to immediately end remote work across federal agencies, making a five-day work week a requirement for all federal employees.

[Anonymous]

It'll probably be a super general EO that is implemented differently across agencies. Just like now some agencies count a "day in office" as 5 hours and others count 50% of hours worked.

[Anonymous]

Why would it be a general EO if they want to make everyone come in 5 days a week in the hope that a good chunk quit? Seems like a pretty easy EO to draft.

[Anonymous]

More federal workers afraid of accountability, classic