By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-06 01:48:58 | Updated at 2024-12-22 11:18:05
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Elon and Vivek Issue First DOGE Decision, And 94 Percent of Feds Will Be Hit First
MSN---- Western Journal ^ | 12-5 | Jack Davis
Posted on 12/05/2024 5:24:09 PM PST by dennisw
“Just 3 percent of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, 6 percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote,” the report said.
A Republican senator is proposing a bill that she says would give the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency a head start on making government more efficient.
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has proposed the REMOTE Act, which will monitor bureaucrats' computer use and require agencies to report on the downside of telework, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
The bill would require that agencies review how much work remote federal employees actually do: including the “average number of logins made” by every federal worker and the amount of time spent on the federal network.
“The American people gave us a mandate to shake up business as usual in Washington and drain the swamp. That starts with getting the bureaucrat class to climb out of the bubble bath, put away the golf clubs, and get back to work,” Ernst said, according to Politico.
Ernst is the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus and has met with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to pitch her ideas, according to Fox News.
One of Ernst’s major proposals is to reduce the number of federal employees who do not regularly come into their offices.
Ernst recently released a report saying federal workers “have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers’ time.”
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1 posted on 12/05/2024 5:24:09 PM PST by dennisw
To: dennisw
Garbage deflection by the GOP-E. Telling the foxes to keep guarding the hen house is a waste of time and resources.
2 posted on 12/05/2024 5:27:26 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
To: dennisw
One of Ernst’s major proposals is to reduce the number of federal employees who do not regularly come into their offices.
Ernst recently released a report saying federal workers “have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers’ time.”
3 posted on 12/05/2024 5:27:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything, It's that history rarely teaches anything. (outofsalt))
To: dennisw
94% of Feds....
In other words “You need fear only if you are guilty.” DC becomes a ghost town.
4 posted on 12/05/2024 5:27:51 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: dennisw
Federal agencies monitoring their (shirk) work from home crowd is as rare as the dodo bird. My guess is any work they do is making useless reports with fancy technicolor charts and graphs. Going to useless zoom meetings.
Private sector work from home, you will be monitored for output.
5 posted on 12/05/2024 5:29:43 PM PST by dennisw
To: dennisw
I'm not concerned about "input", the time spent on the job (home or office) in a chair. I'm more concerned about "output", what the worker accomplishes. Managers need to measure output, not input. I'm just as happy with a worker who can finish all the work in five hours instead of eight, as long as the performance goals are met.
In my entire career, I was measured on performance, not on hours spent. (Except when I'm paid by the hour as a consultant. My output needs to reflect that input, though.)
A manager that can't set up measurement of performance is not doing his/her job.
6 posted on 12/05/2024 5:30:41 PM PST by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
To: dennisw
They also are going to cut social security unity and Medicare, which make up half the budget.
7 posted on 12/05/2024 5:32:11 PM PST by PoeToaster
To: MNJohnnie
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has proposed the REMOTE Act, which will monitor bureaucrats' computer use and require agencies to report on the downside of telework
So in other words, this bill really wouldn't do anything.
To: dennisw
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has proposed the REMOTE Act, which will monitor bureaucrats' computer use and require agencies to report on the downside of telework, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail
Ernst's big idea is to "monitor" the bureaucrats' computer usage as they work from home?
Why not have them ALL come in to work?
9 posted on 12/05/2024 5:36:39 PM PST by FreeReign
To: dennisw
.......this is such bullshit! I have had over many decades several thousand employees on many projects. They will figure out a hundred ways to defeat any monitoring system.
The Covid fraud is done. Get your asses back to work or get fired!
10 posted on 12/05/2024 5:37:45 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
To: dennisw
When I worked in telecommunications we had someone get caught at a movie theater while they were supposed to be working remote.
11 posted on 12/05/2024 5:39:57 PM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
To: frank ballenger
Have you been there lately? It’s a ghost town. Downtown biz is hurting. No federal workers......
12 posted on 12/05/2024 5:40:59 PM PST by blackberry1
To: Right_Wing_Madman
She is trying to save face from her confirmation decision. “they are mad at me, I have to do something they might like”.
13 posted on 12/05/2024 5:41:09 PM PST by Openurmind
To: dennisw
Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has proposed the REMOTE Act, which will monitor bureaucrats' computer use
No! No! No! This is how the Gope will kill DOGE. More meaningless BS proposals that will achieve nothing. The original proposal was show up to work or get fired -- the goal being to FIRE , not "monitor their productivity".
14 posted on 12/05/2024 5:42:38 PM PST by libh8er
To: Cen-Tejas
One trick is to open up Microsoft Word and find a way to keep the left or up arrow depressed. It keeps your computer from showing no activity and turning g on the screen saver.
15 posted on 12/05/2024 5:43:59 PM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
To: libh8er
Isn’t this the same woman trying to derail Hegseth ?
16 posted on 12/05/2024 5:44:03 PM PST by libh8er
To: libh8er
She’s up in ‘26. Making a name for herself.
17 posted on 12/05/2024 5:46:01 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
To: MNJohnnie
Move all the departments, and have everyone punch in and out at the offices every day, with cameras monitoring everyone who leaves the building.
18 posted on 12/05/2024 5:47:31 PM PST by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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