Are your federal agency offices eerily quiet?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The EO is going to direct agency heads to develop a plan for RTO. It will be vague and nonspecific and provide no timeframe for implementation. It also will not create specific targets re: number of days in office.

Gosh I hope so.

Signed,
Fed who moved over 10 years ago with 3 days/week telework that never would have made the jump if I knew I'd have a 40+ mile commute 5x a week at some point

Why do you live so far from you job?

Stop asking this question if you have any knowledge at all about the DC area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think many are embracing their last chances at telework. Bloomberg reported that one hundred executive orders are prepped to be signed on Monday. One apparently eliminates telework.

Bloomberg is not reporting this.

"The Trump team also intends to try to shrink the federal workforce by putting a hiring freeze on the government and mandating federal employees to return to the office for in-person work, a position billionaire Elon Musk has been pushing as the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. What is unclear is how these executive orders will work with the swathes of federal workers who are unionized, one person said."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think many are embracing their last chances at telework. Bloomberg reported that one hundred executive orders are prepped to be signed on Monday. One apparently eliminates telework.

Bloomberg is not reporting this.

"The Trump team also intends to try to shrink the federal workforce by putting a hiring freeze on the government and mandating federal employees to return to the office for in-person work, a position billionaire Elon Musk has been pushing as the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. What is unclear is how these executive orders will work with the swathes of federal workers who are unionized, one person said."

Fed unions are toothless. New administration controls the courts and disregards contracts as a matter of course; and what recourse does a union have other than sueing over terms of contract? They can’t strike, that’s illegal and grounds for immediate dismissal and maybe even jail time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think many are embracing their last chances at telework. Bloomberg reported that one hundred executive orders are prepped to be signed on Monday. One apparently eliminates telework.

Bloomberg is not reporting this.

"The Trump team also intends to try to shrink the federal workforce by putting a hiring freeze on the government and mandating federal employees to return to the office for in-person work, a position billionaire Elon Musk has been pushing as the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. What is unclear is how these executive orders will work with the swathes of federal workers who are unionized, one person said."

This could easily be "have more in-office days, accounting for the ability to have that number of people in the office at any one time, and excluding contracts that are full-time remote".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think many are embracing their last chances at telework. Bloomberg reported that one hundred executive orders are prepped to be signed on Monday. One apparently eliminates telework.

Bloomberg is not reporting this.

"The Trump team also intends to try to shrink the federal workforce by putting a hiring freeze on the government and mandating federal employees to return to the office for in-person work, a position billionaire Elon Musk has been pushing as the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. What is unclear is how these executive orders will work with the swathes of federal workers who are unionized, one person said."

Fed unions are toothless. New administration controls the courts and disregards contracts as a matter of course; and what recourse does a union have other than sueing over terms of contract? They can’t strike, that’s illegal and grounds for immediate dismissal and maybe even jail time.

The above quote was in response to the statement that the Bloomberg article was not reporting an EO targeting RTW - the paragraph appears to clearly indicate that such an EO will be signed on Day One. Whether the unions will be effective in fighting the order is another story entirely.