Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 12:53     Subject: Re:Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Laughably, this bill only applies to teleworkers, not remote workers. So full time remote workers can continue to make locality pay.


In essence, it provides an incentive for agencies to make their employees only coming in one day per week to change to no days per week. If the goal is retention.


Congress, as always, doesn't know how to research anything that they write laws on.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 12:53     Subject: Re:Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:Laughably, this bill only applies to teleworkers, not remote workers. So full time remote workers can continue to make locality pay.


In essence, it provides an incentive for agencies to make their employees only coming in one day per week to change to no days per week. If the goal is retention.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 12:51     Subject: Re:Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Laughably, this bill only applies to teleworkers, not remote workers. So full time remote workers can continue to make locality pay.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 11:27     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.

You’re presuming that employees all deserve offices. I’m sure they’d be happy for you to be sharing offices and sitting on chairs in hallways.


Nope; but I am presuming that everyone gets a desk. My agency does not have enough space for every employee to be sitting at the office at the same time.


If my agency brought in everyone into our building, we'd exceed fire code capacity.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 11:23     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.

You’re presuming that employees all deserve offices. I’m sure they’d be happy for you to be sharing offices and sitting on chairs in hallways.


Nope; but I am presuming that everyone gets a desk. My agency does not have enough space for every employee to be sitting at the office at the same time.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 11:21     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.


Gee, I wish there was a way to obtain commercial office space in the DMV, either through lease or purchase.

But I just don't see how that's possible, given the millions of office space currently sitting empty in the DMV and landlords offering fire sale commercial lease deals.

What a shame.


No one is saying it is not possible. Please show where someone said that.

The problem is whether agencies that specifically gave up commercial space to save money are now going to turn around and execute a new lease on commercial space. Please discuss that, not the straw man you brought up.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 10:06     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.


Gee, I wish there was a way to obtain commercial office space in the DMV, either through lease or purchase.

But I just don't see how that's possible, given the millions of office space currently sitting empty in the DMV and landlords offering fire sale commercial lease deals.

What a shame.

I thought DOGE and its allies wanted to reduce government spending
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 10:06     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.

You’re presuming that employees all deserve offices. I’m sure they’d be happy for you to be sharing offices and sitting on chairs in hallways.


Do you want me making sensitive phone calls in crowded spaces?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 10:04     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If there is a RTO 5 day a week mandate, then there should be no snow day telework.


Then drive in like everyone else. My office was 85% full on Monday snow day. Yeah we were a couple hours late but we were there.

Imagine how much more difficult that would have been with all the fed employees on the road also.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 10:01     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.

You’re presuming that employees all deserve offices. I’m sure they’d be happy for you to be sharing offices and sitting on chairs in hallways.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 09:52     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:Still no solution to address the fact that agencies do not have space for all of their employees. Many agencies gave up leased private office space and transitioned their employees to new space with limited time in the office. They cannot fit all of their employees in their offices at one time. The whole model is based on the idea that some employees work remotely.


Gee, I wish there was a way to obtain commercial office space in the DMV, either through lease or purchase.

But I just don't see how that's possible, given the millions of office space currently sitting empty in the DMV and landlords offering fire sale commercial lease deals.

What a shame.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 09:50     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
This is win-win, teleworking full time take 33% pay cut!
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 09:46     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m just tired of being hated on. Like so insulted. members get served by Feds in so many ways they don’t even know yet they all are lt hate us all.


Agreed. Teleworking also allows me flexibility to provide better service because I can schedule phone calls with people outside of business hours in my time zone.

You can just ask the people I've helped. I'm proud of what I have accomplished.


+1. Plus I end up working more because I am not commuting. There is not a single study showing a drop in productivity due to feds teleworking.

But also joke’s on them— because of pay compression losing DC locality pay would hardly touch my salary.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 09:36     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:I’m just tired of being hated on. Like so insulted. members get served by Feds in so many ways they don’t even know yet they all are lt hate us all.


Agreed. Teleworking also allows me flexibility to provide better service because I can schedule phone calls with people outside of business hours in my time zone.

You can just ask the people I've helped. I'm proud of what I have accomplished.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 09:13     Subject: Federal workers who telework one day a week could lose locality pay
Anonymous wrote:I’m just tired of being hated on. Like so insulted. members get served by Feds in so many ways they don’t even know yet they all are lt hate us all.


Same. We were told that the administration would want to "move fast" when they come in in a couple weeks. Moving fast means hard work and long hours. They want to do that while making life miserable for us and berating us. It's just not going to happen.