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[quote=Anonymous]Joni Ernst and others seem to be on a weird obsessive push to eliminate telework and remote work.

Why?   Work is what you do, not where you are.   True, sometimes you need to go to where the work is, for example if you are doing inspections you need to be where the thing you're inspecting is.  Or if you are a car mechanic, you need to be where the car is.  But the overwhelming majority of office work and many other things DO NOT come with any real reason for why you need to be doing it from a specific location.

Does it get abused sometimes?  Sure.  Might there be someone taking a call from their bubble bath?  Sure, and that would be hugely inappropriate.  But that's not at all what's going on with the overwhelming majority of workers and it's no reason to eliminate telework and remote work.  Why punish 99% for the problems caused by less than 1%?  If there's an abuse, punish the one abusing.  Contrary to GOP opinions, federal workers can and do routinely get fired.

Telework and remote work has been effective in federal government.  The overwhelming majority of the federal workforce has been productive, with no major adverse effects across the majority of government.  And in addition it has saved the government money, as many offices have been consolidated and downsized saving the government rental and real estate and utility bills and other things, along with reducing transit subsidies and a whole host of other things.  In addition it has improved worker morale and retention and has had other personnel benefits.

Members of Congress like Joni Ernst are running around maligning and slandering federal workers, with gross distortions and made-up numbers like "only 6% of federal employees show up for work."  Telework and remote work HAS already been studied, by OPM, by OMB, by GAO, by agency after agency and it shows Joni Ernst's attacks to seriously miss the mark.  https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2024/12/joni-ernsts-war-on-remote-work-ignores-the-data-here-it-is

So what's the game here?   Just more Republican lying and divisiveness and demoralizing of federal workers?  And if they follow through with it, they would actually end up spending MORE taxpayer dollars with their RTO idiocy, for no positive outcome.[/quote]

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