Civil servant or contractor?
Only the civil service is being given the day off.
The thought is that such a small fraction of the people would actually be in the office, so its more cost efficient to just keep the building heat at a minimum for 4 days straight. Obama has frozen the pay of government workers for going on 3 years now, so he isn’t doing this to be nice.
Civil servant. 19 years as a CPA in the private sector, now I help prepare financial statements for four Federal agencies.