Federal Workers Who Don’t Come to Work Monday Are Fired

So Im a 40+ year fed,

My telework experience does not square with media reports on the ” only 6%” show up to work. That is completely bogus in my area of Subject Matter Expertese. But I can tell you, not all Federal Jobs are the same. So maybe somewhere that is true.

Secondly we DIDNT CHOOSE to telework, Biden sent us home during his FAKE PANDEMIC. For some it was the democrat dream vacation they always dreamed of, because they work in labratories and you cant do that work from home, so what work coukd they do from home? Remember, they did NOT choose it, it was MANDATED. For many others, like Project Managers and Engineers, no such vacation came, because all their time is spent Managing multimillion dollar contractual programs for National Security…that NEVER stops. I can say, it was way more productive in that kind of job to work at home than in the office. No distractions at home.

But, and there is a big but here, humans dont do great in isolation. Secondly the long term goal of telework was noble, but flawed. Counter to media claims of no productivity, common sense should have told the consumers of news that doesnt square with the real world you lived in. We were at war, supporting 24/7 real time National Security operations for the last 24 years. In the office we would go home at 5 PM, stopping all work ( BY LAW). But from telework, you are home, so you never stop working, this included through meals and including weekends, at no increased pay. Again, that was how telework tended to psychologically work on those whose jobs support it, aka , an office job. But for those who work in labs, there was likely no productivity at times unless you went into the lab.

So the war ended in a disaster, but Joe Biden decided to keep us on a modified telework. If your job supported telework, you were to come into the office on a coordinated 3 day a week schedule…finally we could see each other again! That was a finding, Im not an extravert, so I never dreamed not seeing co-workers would grow old. It really did. So the 3 day a week telework was pretty cool, but make mo mistake about it, productivity dropped…because of the typical office social activity at work, that we never noticed pre-telework. You know somebody walking to the rest toom, passes your desk, stops and chats you up…that never happens at home…and it eats up productivity. This did get tedious in my busy role. I literally cant afford to lose schedule on my projects. This arrangement made it difficult to keep schedule. But…this was closer to the 40 year traditional office work I had become accustom to. The telework gave me more time for actual work, the hybrid telework cut me to two days of high productivity.

On the really bad side, we were suppose to ve able to cut down on costly operation and maintenance of Government properties and buildings. That never manifested, as 100% of the workforce teleworked 3 days a week, so we still needed the same physical space for when we all came in. Add to that, tgat Jie Biden hired over a million additional workers , as a form of welfare democrats love, during this time. I was shocked to learn we had grown to over 2 million feds in 4 years, my office never saw even one new hire, not one.

So to me its a judgement call, telework does increase productivity for office jobs, but…but it drives most people to want human interaction face to face, this aspect hurts productivity. And if you try to solve both problems, productivity and the need for human physical interaction…YOU WILL NEVER DECREASE GOVT OPERATING COSTS. Maybe there is a way AI in the future can be the master scheduler of required SPACE, as its a very complex problem set, with many many interdependencies. But until then the traditional come to work paradigm is BEST! Yes there is a natural loss of productivity in THE OFFICE over work from Home on jobs that are telework compatible. But humans cant live that way, even introverts want some measure of human contact. If we remain in a peacetime optempo, then the naturally reduced productivity of traditional in office work make perfect sense fir the US Taxpayer. Slow down the spending of US Tax dollars…IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING. However in a wartime optempo productivity can never stop or slow in National Security jobs. Jobs that can be securely done teleworking would be best, but only those jobs! We will never reap less operating costs and maintenance until AI cand manage the complex schedules to allow telework and higher productivity.

SO ITS BACK TO THE OFFICE!

While paying these government sloths has been a waist, it probably has not cost near as much as if they had been “working”.