By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-05 21:49:26 | Updated at 2024-12-22 15:56:12
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Only 6% Of Feds Work From An Office Full-Time — And Some Aren’t Working At All, Audit Finds
The Daily Wire ^ | December 5th, 2024 | By Luke Rosiak
Posted on 12/05/2024 1:38:13 PM PST by Mariner
Only 6% of federal employees work from an office full-time, and a third are fully remote. And some aren’t actually working when they “work from home,” a Senate investigation found.
“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus and the report’s author, wrote.
“Just three percent of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, six percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote,” the report states.
Government office buildings have an occupancy rate of only 12%, yet the government spends $16 billion a year to operate them. Even the head of the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, works from home in Missouri.
“You may be more likely to see a ghost than a bureaucrat haunting the halls of some government buildings in Washington, D.C. these days,” Ernst continued.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doge; federalworkers
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Criminal malfeasance.
1 posted on 12/05/2024 1:38:13 PM PST by Mariner
To: Mariner
DOGE will have a target rich environment.
To: Mariner
3 posted on 12/05/2024 1:41:07 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Mariner
This has been going on for DECADES. My mother used to work at Social Security. She said there was a man there who would come in, sit down at his desk and read the newspaper all day...except of course during lunch time. This was in the 70s/80s.
4 posted on 12/05/2024 1:41:48 PM PST by woweeitsme
To: Mariner
Government non-work is not new. I discovered this in 1985 when I called on the FAA in Washington DC.
5 posted on 12/05/2024 1:43:12 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
To: Mariner
No wonder they mostly vote democrat!
6 posted on 12/05/2024 1:43:24 PM PST by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
To: Mariner
I know someone that is a supervisor at the TSA.
He also runs a full time car repair service while hes supposedly working at the TSA.
He's done extremely well for himself since Covid.
7 posted on 12/05/2024 1:44:58 PM PST by Red6
To: Mariner
No wonder we have a $36 trillion deficit.
Paging Elon and Vivek....a job for DOGE!
8 posted on 12/05/2024 1:45:17 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
To: Mariner
EARNST NEES TO FOCUS ON THIS & LET HEDGSETH FIGHT HIS OWN BATTLE
9 posted on 12/05/2024 1:45:48 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: Mariner
Then why don’t we have 6% the federal office space we have?
10 posted on 12/05/2024 1:46:30 PM PST by 9YearLurker
To: Mariner
This is a horribly misleading headline.
Yes. Most get some telework in a pay period. I get 2 days. But one of the first sentences says o my 1/3 are full remote.
A lot need to come back.
And if they are collecting DC COLA while living in SC they a violating the law.
11 posted on 12/05/2024 1:47:31 PM PST by 3RIVRS
To: ClearCase_guy
“DOGE will have a target rich environment”
You bet.....there’s so much low hanging fruit there will be the distinct danger of black eyes!
12 posted on 12/05/2024 1:48:21 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Mariner
13 posted on 12/05/2024 1:48:37 PM PST by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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