Summary

Vivek Ramaswamy, alongside Elon Musk, plans to push federal workers back to the office full-time, aiming to reduce telework and downsize bureaucracy.

Ramaswamy claims requiring in-office attendance could lead to a 25% reduction in federal staff.

Critics, including federal worker unions, argue many jobs, such as healthcare and law enforcement, don’t qualify for telework and warn the move may hurt recruitment and retention.

Meanwhile, costly underused federal office space has drawn attention, with many agencies utilizing only a fraction of their space.

  • NegativeNull
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    921 month ago

    As always, this is just cover to force people to quit and not give severance. It’s a layoff without having to call it a layoff.

    • themeatbridge
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      561 month ago

      It’s not even a cover, it’s the stated intention. They want a reduction in staff.

    • @chilicheeselies
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      41 month ago

      Its not going to work out the way they think it will, because government jobs have a good pension that you dont want to walk away from. This is just going to disrupt peoples lives needlessly and destroy morale.

  • @Lasherz12
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    541 month ago

    This is an entire section of Project 2025… Encourage/force career employees in the government to quit so you can replace them with unqualified Sycophants.

  • sylver_dragon
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    291 month ago

    he said. “You don’t even have to talk about you’re in a mass firing, a mass exodus. Just tell them they have to come back five days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.”

    Even with a 1 hour lunch, 8am to 6pm would be a 9 hour work day. So, bro is expecting folks to just accept a 45 hour workweek along with a complete return to office. Pretty sure he’s going to get his 25% reduction. It’s just going to be all of the most talented people saying “fuck that”.

  • @affiliate
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    181 month ago

    no better way to eliminate bureaucracy than by making new rules that everybody has to follow

  • @ATDA
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    51 month ago

    If only real estate had some form of value other than using it ourselves… Hmm

    If only we knew of a candidate, perhaps even a president that knew about real estate renting and sales.

    Nope let’s make people quit and replace them instead!

    • @[email protected]
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      111 month ago

      If you’re hinting that Trump knows his way around real estate: stop. Trump bankrupted casinos he is so bad with real estate. 6 bankruptcies means he was nothing but a failure.

      • @ATDA
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        21 month ago

        Haha I know

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    31 month ago

    Are there that many remote government jobs? I checked at the beginning of the Biden administration and all of them required me to be in the office and in *shudder* business casual

    • @BigPotato
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      11 month ago

      A government building I visit regularly has a help wanted that claims the government is a leader in innovative solutions like telework meanwhile, the workers in that building have to work weekends in the office too!

      And, of course, telework is actually is strictly forbidden at my location.

    • @chilicheeselies
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      11 month ago

      Most are hybrid, my fiance has one. Administrative type stuff that doesnt require you be in the office (like most office jobs), but requires travel. We’re worried about this honestly.