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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This new EO will complete destroy the economy in the DC metro and the US at large. Requiring that agencies get rid of 4 employees for every 1 employee they hire. This rule basically mandates that government agencies reduce their staff by 8% each year. In combination with mass scale RIFs you are easily looking at a 30-50% decline in the federal workforce. In combination with the proposed budget cuts of 250 billion per year, you are looking at job losses in excess of 3 million people for the US. This does not even consider the spillover effects of employed people cutting back on spending due to lower consumer confidence. It will be an unmitigated economic disaster that is completely self inflicted. [/quote]

Curious though how many of the 2MM feds in total are impacted.

This EO excludes any agencies dealing with security and immigration…so excludes border agents, ICE, TSA, probably a decent amount of FBI (they may replace agents but doesn’t sound like they will be reduced), assume Himeland is excluded, assume NSA and CIA excluded (again they may replace CIA agents but not sure there will be less).

Then you have air traffic control which needs to hire people, USPS (I guess they could reduce this) and then VA hospitals and the people administering VA benefits (VA and benefits is 600,000 federal workers alone).

So seems like all of the above are easily 1 MM employees if not more.[/quote]

They are pretending to care about the VA and national defense but they fully intend to cut these jobs as well. They are making people that were hired remotely ( in the VA and DoD) and have worked remotely for years RTO (who don’t live within 300 miles of their office) RTO. The administration is using COVID era occupancy data to justify eliminating half of the federal office portfolio while simultaneously requiring everyone to go back 5 days a week. Most agencies don’t have room for their employees to work from the office 5 days a week, if they eliminate 50% of the existing offices. Telework has been a thing for two decades in many gov agencies and they procured office spaces under the assumption that most employees would be in the office around 3 days a week. There is literally no space for 100% RTO. The plan is to eliminate at least 50% of the federal workforce if the GSA is requiring agencies to reduce the office portfolio by 50%. They are probably targeting closer to 75% reductions, they don’t care if the government functions at all and they are actively trying to destroy it. [/quote]

There are supposedly a ton of government owned buildings that haven’t been occupied for years.

The largest building is 1,000,000!square feet and is old and decrepit and nobody has worked there for 10 years.

I guess my point is a 50% reduction in the office portfolio does not equal a 50% reduction in utilized office space.[/quote]

Do you even work for the government? It doesn’t sound like you know what you are talking about. This RTO order effectively doubles the required office space for federal employees and they are planning on cutting the amount of office space in half. There are at most a few agencies that have enough office space For 100% of their staff to RTO five days a week. Most of them do not have the space to do this and requiring a 50% cut across the board will significantly impair the government ability to function. We don’t even have enough by computer monitors or desks for everyone to use and the administration refused our request to purchase these items. We are literally going to have dozens of employees sitting on the floor in a conference room attempting to work in a few weeks. This is not a thoughtful attempt to improve government efficiency. It is a deliberate plan to prevent the government from functioning at all. [/quote]

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