What is your federal agency telling you re: RTO? (No other rants/comments!)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from Treasury. It's odd.

The Secretary was asked about RTO at his town hall meeting yesterday (Monday). He said that they are still working on RTO planning, and didn’t provide any timelines. He also indicated that he wanted to make some changes at the Main Treasury building (improving food offerings, reopening the gym, and reopening the building’s front entrance - which has been closed for the past several years) before requiring employees to come back full time.

The Main Treasury building improvements are specific to Departmental Offices employees only, though, and wouldn’t be relevant to employees at other parts of Treasury (the various bureaus plus the IRS). I don’t know if all Treasury employees are going to be on the same RTO plan and timeline.

Feels very contrary to what many others are experiencing at the hands of DOGE. I wonder if Bessent has some kind of political capital that other's don't right now? Or maybe the focus is the tax bill and tax season, and then our time will come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from Treasury. It's odd.

The Secretary was asked about RTO at his town hall meeting yesterday (Monday). He said that they are still working on RTO planning, and didn’t provide any timelines. He also indicated that he wanted to make some changes at the Main Treasury building (improving food offerings, reopening the gym, and reopening the building’s front entrance - which has been closed for the past several years) before requiring employees to come back full time.

The Main Treasury building improvements are specific to Departmental Offices employees only, though, and wouldn’t be relevant to employees at other parts of Treasury (the various bureaus plus the IRS). I don’t know if all Treasury employees are going to be on the same RTO plan and timeline.

Feels very contrary to what many others are experiencing at the hands of DOGE. I wonder if Bessent has some kind of political capital that other's don't right now? Or maybe the focus is the tax bill and tax season, and then our time will come.

Seems like a common sense approach by a newly installed chief looking to build goodwill among the staff he'll need to rely on. But yes -- for the same reasons -- doesn't seem in the spirit of DOGE/OPM who appear to take glee in tormenting fed workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from Treasury. It's odd.

The Secretary was asked about RTO at his town hall meeting yesterday (Monday). He said that they are still working on RTO planning, and didn’t provide any timelines. He also indicated that he wanted to make some changes at the Main Treasury building (improving food offerings, reopening the gym, and reopening the building’s front entrance - which has been closed for the past several years) before requiring employees to come back full time.

The Main Treasury building improvements are specific to Departmental Offices employees only, though, and wouldn’t be relevant to employees at other parts of Treasury (the various bureaus plus the IRS). I don’t know if all Treasury employees are going to be on the same RTO plan and timeline.

Feels very contrary to what many others are experiencing at the hands of DOGE. I wonder if Bessent has some kind of political capital that other's don't right now? Or maybe the focus is the tax bill and tax season, and then our time will come.

I have to believe that it's because tax attorneys can easily go somewhere else if forced to RTO 5x/week, and he's going to need them to do the administration's agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from Treasury. It's odd.

The Secretary was asked about RTO at his town hall meeting yesterday (Monday). He said that they are still working on RTO planning, and didn’t provide any timelines. He also indicated that he wanted to make some changes at the Main Treasury building (improving food offerings, reopening the gym, and reopening the building’s front entrance - which has been closed for the past several years) before requiring employees to come back full time.

The Main Treasury building improvements are specific to Departmental Offices employees only, though, and wouldn’t be relevant to employees at other parts of Treasury (the various bureaus plus the IRS). I don’t know if all Treasury employees are going to be on the same RTO plan and timeline.

Feels very contrary to what many others are experiencing at the hands of DOGE. I wonder if Bessent has some kind of political capital that other's don't right now? Or maybe the focus is the tax bill and tax season, and then our time will come.

I have to believe that it's because tax attorneys can easily go somewhere else if forced to RTO 5x/week, and he's going to need them to do the administration's agenda.

Good point - I guess that transferability applies to a critical mass of the policy/legal staff at Main Treasury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from Treasury. It's odd.

The Secretary was asked about RTO at his town hall meeting yesterday (Monday). He said that they are still working on RTO planning, and didn’t provide any timelines. He also indicated that he wanted to make some changes at the Main Treasury building (improving food offerings, reopening the gym, and reopening the building’s front entrance - which has been closed for the past several years) before requiring employees to come back full time.

The Main Treasury building improvements are specific to Departmental Offices employees only, though, and wouldn’t be relevant to employees at other parts of Treasury (the various bureaus plus the IRS). I don’t know if all Treasury employees are going to be on the same RTO plan and timeline.

Feels very contrary to what many others are experiencing at the hands of DOGE. I wonder if Bessent has some kind of political capital that other's don't right now? Or maybe the focus is the tax bill and tax season, and then our time will come.

Seems like a common sense approach by a newly installed chief looking to build goodwill among the staff he'll need to rely on. But yes -- for the same reasons -- doesn't seem in the spirit of DOGE/OPM who appear to take glee in tormenting fed workers.

"Seems like a common sense approach by a newly installed chief looking to build goodwill among the staff he'll need to rely on." Exactly. It's odd!