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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The vast majority of people are compensated and work in conditions based on what the market will bear. No one earns remote or hybrid working conditions in perpetuity based on past achievements. Employers in most industries have an upper hand in this market and have called back talented, high achieving employees who were previously hybrid or remote. These employers include Amazon, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Microsoft, Citigroup, AT&T, JP Morgan, Disney, IBM, ebay, Meta, Apple, Salesforce, state governments, and various nonprofits. It’s safe to assume that at least some employees at all of these organizations believed, based on the conditions of their employment when they joined, that they would be remote or hybrid for the extent of their employment. What makes these people different from feds needing to RTO in the next few months or years? Nothing.

The current market conditions, while not the main driver for Trump’s RTO policy, make the policy appear unremarkable to most non feds. Let’s also not forget that this was something that Biden and Zients were trying to do nearly two years ago. If anything, feds’ general unwillingness to compromise on RTO in 2023 and glee at playing (or overplaying) their hand on RTO served to bolster Trump’s campaign trail characterization of a supercilious civil service class obsessed with enacting DEI measures while working from home in pajamas. 
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most non-Fed white collar workers absolutely have the flexibility to WFH a few days a week or situationally as needed. I’m not interested in comparisons to Blackrock or Goldman unless they want to pay me 5x my salary. I’m also super uninterested in hearing about how I am “supercilious” in the face of Trump literally stating his goal is to torture civil servants. That’s shockingly unethical, bad government, and should concern everyone. [/quote]

I feel like I had a little sympathy prior to this thread. If you think Blackrock or Goldman is paying most of you 5x your salary for the same work and skills you have you are so delusional you should not be working for taxpayers. [/quote]
A good chunk of the attorney workforce (especially among DCUM posters) came from biglaw and likely could return.  When these new changes take effect biglaw will offer MORE workplace flexibility than government.  This will be disastrous for retention and hiring—which seems to be the plan.[/quote]

100%. The plan is to get everyone out of the federal government and into the private sector. Get yourself out and find a better job for yourself.[/quote]

+1. The economy goes up if the federal workforce dumps out into the private sector. It goes down as feds stay in the federal government, passing policies and regulations that hamstring the private sector. The people who write here seem to not understand that this is all by design. They want a smaller federal workforce. They don't want the best and brightest bringing their talents because then there will be stronger regulations, more expansive policies, etc. I know most people here will only listen to mainstream media. But if you do that, you cannot understand the administration's plans. Trump’s people do not give long interviews to the mainstream media, and when they are interviewed, it's hostile and antagonistic so the core ideas never come out. You have to listen to interviews on right wing media to hear the plans. Tucker Carlson has been interviewing administration officials for months and they've spelled out their entire plan, including litigation strategies. I have known all this was coming for months and have been surprised by nothing, and I even understand the time frames and some of the logistics. If you can't stomach listening to opposing views, I am not talking to you. If you're genuinely seeking to be able to know what they are planning to do and when they plan to do it, I am talking to you. [/quote]

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