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[quote=Anonymous]Metrics are required for budgeting and manpower analysis, so I think agencies actually do know their people have been extremely productive the last several years. But even without releasing internal information, there's plenty of public news about what agencies have been doing (and plenty of editorials complaining about how much they're doing). All the things that the govenrment is in the news for? They are done by government workers.

As a PP said, there has never been enough space for everyone to be in the office at once: even before covid, we had 2 and 3 people per office and we used WFH to work it out. Personally I went on a 4/1 schedule 2 years before covid. I have coworkers who have been fully remote for a decade. We're all working our butts off.

I don't think the monopoly point is quite apt. DC jobs are mostly not customer-facing, and also there are quite a few private companies that are effectively monopolies and from which I get disappointing - often remote - customer service. I'm not saying bad service is okay, but it's weird to pretend that that I can just shop around for a - what, grocery? internet provider? - and make my choice based on the quality of their in-person service. That's not how most consumer interactions happen for non-billionaires.

I agree that office space should be reduced, though.[/quote]

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