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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help me follow the logic of anti-telework folks. 
If a small number of people are abusing the system, is the argument everyone should lose the benefit? Or is the argument, my private sector job doesn’t allow telework, so your job shouldn’t either? I’m really trying to understand.[/quote]

Neither. I think they've been pretty transparent about the goal being to make federal employment more miserable in order to drive high-performers to the private sector. They want government to be less effective.[/quote]

Private companies are cutting back and hiring freezes. It could be a big recession on top if inflation. [/quote]

So teleworking will be the "cause" of the next recession?[/quote]

Private companies were rto at the beginning of the year.  They are looking to fire too. [/quote]

I don’t know anyone in a private sector role back five days a week. Most people are hybrid. That’s the norm.

People are pretty delusional about the state of the world. Look at the wildfires. My husband’s company, based in in LA, is feeling pretty good about diversifying their workforce and expanding nationwide hiring cause a lot of the LA staff aren’t focused on work lately.

There is no question we will have another pandemic. It makes sense to get used to remote work becoming a more regular thing.

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Most white collar people are hybrid. Even at the height of the pandemic the majority of American workers were not working from home. Lots of jobs require you to be physically present for them to happen.

This is not an argument against telework. DH can telework, I can't. Our family runs much better and DH is much happier when he can telework. But the blindness to the sheer number of people who cannot telework (like me!) is part of what causes the irrational rage against teleworking feds.[/quote]

you know, from now on you should have your desk moved right outside of your office and you should work under the scorching sun and 100 degrees in the summer and holding and umbrella under the rain or snow in the winter. Your blindness to the sheer number of people who cannot work in a comfy office but are forced to work outside (construction workers, roofers, produce pickers, road workers and so on) is part of the irrational rage against office workers so sorry but get a good coat for your day at the office tomorrow as it would be unfair to have you work inside when so many people, for the very nature of their work, cannot. [/quote]

I've had those kind of outdoor jobs. That's why I studied hard, went to grad school, got a PhD, amassed a huge amount of human capital, so I could work indoors on a computer. [/quote]

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