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Working remotely has consumed the federal bureaucracy to the point that 10% of the workforce — some 228,000 employees — never show up at an office, according to a new report Wednesday by the House’s oversight committee.
Another 1.1 million employees are designated as eligible for some telework, and nearly all of them take advantage of it. They average two days a week working from somewhere other than their official worksites, investigators concluded.
Nearly one-third of Health and Human Services employees are full-time remote workers. Meanwhile, 55% of the Education Department never has to set foot in the office, according to the report — and those that telework still end up spending more than half their time out of the office.
To make matters worse, Biden administration officials have tried to obfuscate the extent of things, challenging the data and telling lawmakers their employees “show up every day.”
The result is agency buildings that resemble ghost towns. House Oversight and Reform investigators photographed the 6,300-employee Social Security building’s parking lot completely empty at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday workday.
“The lights may be on in federal buildings, but too many federal bureaucrats continue to work from home,” said Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican and chairman of the committee.
He said the government’s whole approach to telework is wrong in that it’s largely based on what the employees want, rather than on the government’s mission or taxpayers’ best interest.
In most cases, agencies haven’t even tried to measure whether telework advances their mission. --->READ MORE HERE
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Top Republican James Comer is leading the charge in Congress to drag 228,000 federal government employees back into the office.
This week, he's working to provide Donald Trump suggestions for a new government 'business model' to cut down on the staggering number of federal teleworkers.
Comer, who chairs the powerful House Oversight Committee, is holding a hearing Wednesday on federal teleworking practices that have persisted long after the COVID pandemic.
'We know that more than half of the federal employees, and a vast majority of federal office workers, are either regularly teleworking or fully remote,' Comer revealed to DailyMail.com exclusively.
With roughly 2.2 million civilian federal employees, the vast scope of how many of government's workers are remote has been difficult to quantify, the Republican admitted.
Comer also shared that he spoke to Donald Trump about the scale of teleworking over the weekend when he was visiting the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago along with other lawmakers.
'At the very least, President Trump expects the federal workforce to show up for work,' the chairman said of their chat.
The lawmaker also shared he will share his findings with Trump, who he then expects will use the information to inform his cost-cutting initiatives, such as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
'What we're trying to do, as quick as he gets in office, is to provide him with as much data as possible, to help them try to come up with a new business model of the federal government and the federal work,' Comer shared. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home+++++
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