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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a fed and I know some of my contractors are being told to come in full time.  I am really concerned I'm going to lose some of my most experienced, brilliant team members who can easily retire or get a different job.  I've told them that obviously they have to follow their employer's guidelines, but that as far as I'm concerned they've been doing exceptional work in our current hybrid setup.[/quote]

I am a fed contractor and am actively applying for other jobs. My agency takes months to onboard, so good luck to them finding a replacement. [/quote]

Huge brain drain from the government and contractors.  Putin really got a return on his investment, it could take decades to undo the damage to the military.[/quote]

So absurd.  Biden could have tackled the obvious issue of remote workers and empty buildings but he didn’t.  He just ignored it and so many other issues.  To blame this situation on Trump is rich.  Covid has been over for 2 plus years and still federal employees are remote.  Another problem Trump is inheriting from Biden.[/quote]

Being able to hire PhDs remotely isn't an issue. There isn't a problem with remote work.  [/quote]

Not following.  People are bleating about being told to come in.  Remote won’t cut it anymore.  You will need to show up in person (fed or contractor) [b]OR the government will have to sell buildings[/b] or end leases.  I am agnostic but the status quo for the last 2 plus years is enormously wasteful.  And Biden did nothing about it.[/quote]

There is a WSJ article today about the amount of space owned by the GSA that is functionally obsolete.  It can't be used without serious investment even if they wanted to use it.

The GSA manages a massive portfolio of federal buildings, consisting of 370 million square feet nationwide. But many have been poorly maintained due to lack of funding, and are sitting empty or underused, the GSA testified before Congress in 2023. Some massive government buildings are empty or uninhabitable, said one former GSA official. Many others were built in the 1970s and have lacked the proper maintenance for decades.

Take the former GSA regional headquarters in L’Enfant Plaza. The nearly 1 million-square-foot office building is the largest property the GSA is looking to shed. It is in a prime Washington, D.C., location. But it has stood empty[b] since 2018,[/b] due to its need for extensive renovations that would cost about $184.8 million, per a report put together by the GSA in September of 2021.[/quote]

Did anyone catch that there is also an EO to beautify government buildings?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture/

“… to submit to me within 60 days recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.”

This seems like an odd initiative for a president elected by people who want to “drain the swamp,” relocate employees out of DC, and save taxpayer dollars.

The cynical part of me thinks that Trump will always be a real estate investor at heart and this is a ploy to somehow drive up commercial building costs surrounding the government buildings.

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