In Vivek's interview with Tucker the other day he was talking about a good way to reduce the size of the government workforce is to make people actually come in to the office. A large amount of federal workers still work from home and if forced to return to the office many will just quit. Then don't replace them.
Force them to reveal how few of them actually work. I remember a story of a state employee who won some award, when they went to give it to him they discovered that he hadn't actually come in for four years and had been collecting a paycheck that entire time.
Some Inspectors, or county/city workers need to work in their local area some days of the week, so a loose WFH policy works to reduce travel (and time spent driving) to and from the office. This creates a geographical approach to work-flow allocation-management, but those wayward traveller guys can still come into the office on other days, or for meetings (and there's zoom). So, what I mean is, that the 'rule' needs to be flexible enough to keep advantages such as cutting useless travel on the rate-payer's dime, when under the new regime, those people have to just turn around and head back to do local inspections or works.
These efficiencies would have been discovered during the lockdowns, and that means actual fuel and labor efficiency for government organizations, at the expense of extra time managing the work-flow. Yes those organizer bums definitely need to be in seats, with back-up plans for when the primary person falls sick.
Also, the WFH has opened the possibility to work while recovering from illness, which is actually a huge issue. IF people can work with their feet under a comforter, then the organization won't have to pay for sick leave, nor expose others to unwanted lurgies.
So, not ALL public servants must return, ALL the time - as is that Vivek theory. There still needs to be a fat grey area.
The part about working while recovering from illness is a huge thing... it sucks because i work from home and theres really no such thing as calling out while sick anymore lol. I'll take one day when its at its worse simply due to the symptoms making it too difficult to focus (migraines, fevers, etc), but then im expected to actually work when I'm able to focus even if I'm still sick
Yeah, obviously there are exceptions and valid reasons to work out of office. I think he was more referring to D.C. workers who are still WFH from the Covid days.
In Vivek's interview with Tucker the other day he was talking about a good way to reduce the size of the government workforce is to make people actually come in to the office. A large amount of federal workers still work from home and if forced to return to the office many will just quit. Then don't replace them.
Force them to reveal how few of them actually work. I remember a story of a state employee who won some award, when they went to give it to him they discovered that he hadn't actually come in for four years and had been collecting a paycheck that entire time.
Some Inspectors, or county/city workers need to work in their local area some days of the week, so a loose WFH policy works to reduce travel (and time spent driving) to and from the office. This creates a geographical approach to work-flow allocation-management, but those wayward traveller guys can still come into the office on other days, or for meetings (and there's zoom). So, what I mean is, that the 'rule' needs to be flexible enough to keep advantages such as cutting useless travel on the rate-payer's dime, when under the new regime, those people have to just turn around and head back to do local inspections or works.
These efficiencies would have been discovered during the lockdowns, and that means actual fuel and labor efficiency for government organizations, at the expense of extra time managing the work-flow. Yes those organizer bums definitely need to be in seats, with back-up plans for when the primary person falls sick.
Also, the WFH has opened the possibility to work while recovering from illness, which is actually a huge issue. IF people can work with their feet under a comforter, then the organization won't have to pay for sick leave, nor expose others to unwanted lurgies.
So, not ALL public servants must return, ALL the time - as is that Vivek theory. There still needs to be a fat grey area.
The part about working while recovering from illness is a huge thing... it sucks because i work from home and theres really no such thing as calling out while sick anymore lol. I'll take one day when its at its worse simply due to the symptoms making it too difficult to focus (migraines, fevers, etc), but then im expected to actually work when I'm able to focus even if I'm still sick
Yeah, obviously there are exceptions and valid reasons to work out of office. I think he was more referring to D.C. workers who are still WFH from the Covid days.
Office = field, if you work out in the field (be it a business, job site, travel, etc).
I agree.