Musk and others are now pushing a narrative that federal workers are working remote too much and this is a big source of government inefficiency.  Interesting! Plausible!
We could close certain buildings and make certain workers fully remote. Big savings!
But wait.
That's not what Musk wants.
He wants them all back in office.
But how does that save money? He says workers are more efficient when they're at the office, but, we didn't see a huge drop in government efficiency during COVID.  And many workers did come back, but there hasn't been a big gain in efficiency associated with that either. Data from private workplaces is mixed, at best.
Anyhow here's the link.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/musk-eye...h-2t/story

Okay, first of all, "government efficiency" is an oxymoron, and how in the world would you even measure such a thing?  

My impression is that people like to work remotely because then they can do things like laundry or taking care of their kids.  It seems to me that working remotely is a great opportunity to cheat your employer by doing non-work stuff.  That's why I would never allow it except in extreme emergencies that actually keep people from coming to the office.

People do this anyways. I think the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 50 minutes or something like that, while at work. One of the reasons people let employees stay home is because they didn't see a huge drop in efficiency. That said, I think there is a push to get back, because it is dropping. It was good for a while, but once people figured out they weren't being punished for slacking, they took it too far. That's purely a guess on my part.

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Okay, first of all, "government efficiency" is an oxymoron, and how in the world would you even measure such a thing?  

My impression is that people like to work remotely because then they can do things like laundry or taking care of their kids.  It seems to me that working remotely is a great opportunity to cheat your employer by doing non-work stuff.  That's why I would never allow it except in extreme emergencies that actually keep people from coming to the office.

People do this anyways. I think the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 50 minutes or something like that, while at work. One of the reasons people let employees stay home is because they didn't see a huge drop in efficiency. That said, I think there is a push to get back, because it is dropping. It was good for a while, but once people figured out they weren't being punished for slacking, they took it too far. That's purely a guess on my part.

This is true. The monologue an office space about only doing a couple hours of real work a week is true. Most of your other time is waiting for that high demand time and preparing for it. For most computer-based work there is no short-term drop off in efficiency for remote work. There can be a drop off when individuals develop bad habits. But for a team, you need to have some in person time especially as you bring in new members. Training new people over zoom can be very inefficient.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

I must have worked the wrong office jobs. Mine never had downtime.

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Well, that sucks for you. You're probably one of the few victims of Price's square root law. 5% of the employees account for 50% of the work. Sorry, friend.

https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/who-r...mpany.html

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https://twitter.com/DOGE/status/18673471...uq8JA&s=19

The Department of Education spent over $1 Billion promoting DEI in America’s schools

-$489,883,797 for race-based hiring
-$343,337,286 for DEI programming
-$169,301,221 for DEI mental health initiatives

Source: defendinged.org/investigations…

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$13 million to teach Arabian kids about 57 made up genders?

Most likely

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1...V8hEg&s=19

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