By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 13:00:55 | Updated at 2024-11-22 18:49:59
6 hours ago
Crazy new innovation from DOGE's Vivek: Making the federal workforce actually show up for work
American Thinker ^ | Monica Showalter
Posted on 11/22/2024 4:44:16 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk's partner on the DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency 18-month project, is known as an innovator, a disruptor, a loopy Silicon Valley visionary, a little manic and crazy. There are a lot of them like that over there.
Well, now that he's at President Trump's DOGE, he has come up with his wildest idea ever:
Making the federal workforce actually show up for work.
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The problem has gotten bad.
According to a Daily Caller investigation last year, huge federal buildings on weekdays stood with empty parking lots, with the Department of Health and Human Services being one of the worst of them. At a congressional hearing at the time, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana that he had no idea how many of the employees he supervises actually show up to work.
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While there is a place for remote work in the workplace, we do know that many companies, even the most tecchie-modern of tech companies, such as Yahoo! found that huge numbers of remote workers tended to be less productive than workers at a single workplace where ideas are exchanged and workers can immediately interact with one another. Company brass there insisted that workers return to the office amid many protests.
We also know that huge numbers of workers can be laid off with no ill effects whatsoever, as was done by Musk at Twitter, laying off 80% of his workforce -- with nobody able to tell the difference among Twitter's users -- if anything, the product improved, and now the company has now begun to turn a profit.
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1 posted on 11/22/2024 4:44:16 AM PST by RoosterRedux
To: RoosterRedux
Is Trump going to try this one weird trick?
2 posted on 11/22/2024 4:47:17 AM PST by Paladin2
To: RoosterRedux
I wonder whether the other team will claim such a move isn’t climate friendly.
3 posted on 11/22/2024 4:49:12 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: Paladin2
Federal Employees HATE this one weird trick!
4 posted on 11/22/2024 4:49:32 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
To: RoosterRedux
Public employees need to be ‘available’ for citizen query and/or interaction - somewhere the citizen can go to for help, redress or FTF if needed.
They can work from home - okay.....just make them publish their places for work-from-home and be available there should a citizen need to interact with them FTF. :0)
5 posted on 11/22/2024 4:50:51 AM PST by Gaffer
To: Lazamataz
The system itself is the problem....fed gov employees are the way they are because the system allows it......trust me, after 31 years in the DoD I’ve seen it 1st hand.
6 posted on 11/22/2024 4:55:19 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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