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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been on work calls with DoD employees around mid morning, calling into calls from gymnastics camp. Same client, couldn’t schedule Friday meetings either.

Summer swim team has fed employees (GS-15) working from the pool at 10am swim practices.

I have one client (fed employee) who worked 1/2 day Monday, 12hrs/day Tuesday- Thursday, and off on Friday. HQ agency desk job (eg not medical, shift work, etc).

I think these are the types situation that most people are upset about. Why are taxpayers paying for a fed employee to work from a pool while doing summer childcare. They should have hired a nanny/teenager to take kid to swim team. [/quote]

These things are nice to have but shouldn’t be taken as granted when the avg American people are struggling.[/quote]

I think they should be taken for granted. The average American should be clamoring for these benefits, too. The government competes over the exact same labor as private industry. The client on a maxiflex schedule was working 80 hours a week. Same with the person not working Fridays. Or maybe they were part time—are part time schedules not allowed?

Instead of demanding everyone regress down to the lowest level of labor protections, why aren’t people asking “hey, if the government can give those benefits, why can’t I?” These are the same Americans who applaud tax breaks for the rich because who knows, one day they might be rich too.

If someone wants what someone else has, you try to get it. You don’t take it away from everyone.

And your average american doesn’t interact with GS15s on a daily basis. The anger towards feds had nothing to do with remote work and telework. It is anger towards the availability of WFH in the entire white collar industry. We are just a proxy for that. [/quote]

So much this. The whole rhetoric on this thread shows why we keep regressing (so many corporate apologists) instead of progressing toward better work conditions for more people. Instead of improving things, it's about petty griping on who is getting a "benefit" you don't have.[/quote]

The US as a country will need to become like France or Germany to achieve this…I don’t know if it’s politically or economically fessible to make this type of shift. Germany’s economy is really struggling right now as are most EU economies. I know some of this is due to Chinese competition, but is the structure, if you will, of the economy also to blame? [/quote]

I thought that narrative was that our economy was already so horrible and that's why Trump was elected. Now when it comes to workplace flexibilities, there is suddenly a focus on how we are doing better than the EU?[/quote]

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