I don’t believe all this work from home propaganda. Especially when it is Gov’t workers. Now the porn surfing can be done at home instead of the office.These Federal workers are working maybe 5-10 hours per week working from home. In a busy week maybe 25 hours. Lots of “work” is piling up into a backlog while other “work” will be tossed down the memory hole.
But all these Fed workers are getting paid for 80 hours every two weeks...
Not burning vacation time, etc...
Time for some permanent Furloughs...
I don’t know what your government experience is, but our agency firewalls are tight. If there’s any surfing being done, it’s on personal phones and not government computers.
I seriously get much more done at home in one day than I get done in a week at the RRB.
Ten years ago the son of a friend got his masters in, er, forensic accounting, and went to work for the IRS in DC. His new job was to audit the finances of IRS offices around the country.
He said that from his very first day, he saw many of the people in his office sleeping on the job.....and sleep was the most productive thing some of them did.
I don’t imagine things have improved since then.
Most of the Federal government is contractor heavy. Actual federal employees are enjoying their paid obsolescence while the contractors work themselves to exhaustion.
Bringing in lousy workers into the office won’t improve their productivity. Those who slacked in the office are still slacking now. However, with all the office distractions out of the way, OUR PRODUCTIVITY HAS DOUBLED. Work from home is the real deal.
Don’t think that federal workers typically spent much more time than being actually productive pre-china plague. They just had more useless meetings.