Trump Shouldn’t Wait On DOGE to Rein In Federal Remote ‘work’; Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Suggest DOGE Will End Work-from-Home for Federal Employees

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Trump shouldn’t wait on DOGE to rein in federal remote ‘work’:

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vow their Department of Government Efficiency will end work-from-home for federal bureaucrats — but we don’t see why President-elect Donald Trump should wait for DOGE to pull the plug.

Indeed, Trump should warn the federal workforce to expect the rules to start changing on Jan. 21, right after he’s inaugurated.

OK, the country will always have more remote work than it did before COVID: We learned we can do it, even if it’s got its challenges.

And some people have decided they’d rather earn less to work on their own terms — as is their right.

Yet most of America has mainly dropped remote work entirely, for a host of good reasons.

Not Uncle Sam: Years after any COVID threat vanished, a whopping 1.1 million federal employees —nearly half of the civilian workforce — are still eligible to work from home, reports the Office of Management and Budget. --->READ MORE HERE

Musk and Ramaswamy suggest DOGE will end work-from-home for federal employees:

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday floated ending work-from-home privileges for federal employees as part of their effort to trim the size of government.

The two entrepreneurs, tasked by President-elect Donald Trump last week to lead the newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), suggested in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that eliminating remote work would result in mass resignations that would help them achieve their goal of a smaller, more efficient, government.

“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote.

“If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” they added.

Roughly 1.1 million federal employees – nearly half of the government’s civilian workforce – are eligible for telework, according to the Office of Management and Budget.

About 228,000 employees, or 10% of civilian personnel, work fully remote with “no expectation that they [work] in-person on any regular or recurring basis,” the agency noted in an August 2024 report. --->READ MORE HERE

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