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Summary

Vivek Ramaswamy, alongside Elon Musk, plans to push federal workers back to the office full-time, aiming to reduce telework and downsize bureaucracy.

Ramaswamy claims requiring in-office attendance could lead to a 25% reduction in federal staff.

Critics, including federal worker unions, argue many jobs, such as healthcare and law enforcement, don’t qualify for telework and warn the move may hurt recruitment and retention.

Meanwhile, costly underused federal office space has drawn attention, with many agencies utilizing only a fraction of their space.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

no better way to eliminate bureaucracy than by making new rules that everybody has to follow

[–] [email protected] 86 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

As always, this is just cover to force people to quit and not give severance. It's a layoff without having to call it a layoff.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's not even a cover, it's the stated intention. They want a reduction in staff.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

25%, literally what they say they want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Got to appease those shareholders and make the stock go up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I know I'd like to start seeing some dividends (UBI).

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

he said. “You don’t even have to talk about you’re in a mass firing, a mass exodus. Just tell them they have to come back five days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.”

Even with a 1 hour lunch, 8am to 6pm would be a 9 hour work day. So, bro is expecting folks to just accept a 45 hour workweek along with a complete return to office. Pretty sure he's going to get his 25% reduction. It's just going to be all of the most talented people saying "fuck that".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

Which is the project 2025 goal...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 17 hours ago

This is an entire section of Project 2025... Encourage/force career employees in the government to quit so you can replace them with unqualified Sycophants.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

Let's do congress first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If only real estate had some form of value other than using it ourselves.... Hmm

If only we knew of a candidate, perhaps even a president that knew about real estate renting and sales.

Nope let's make people quit and replace them instead!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If you're hinting that Trump knows his way around real estate: stop. Trump bankrupted casinos he is so bad with real estate. 6 bankruptcies means he was nothing but a failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Haha I know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are there that many remote government jobs? I checked at the beginning of the Biden administration and all of them required me to be in the office and in *shudder* business casual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

A government building I visit regularly has a help wanted that claims the government is a leader in innovative solutions like telework meanwhile, the workers in that building have to work weekends in the office too!

And, of course, telework is actually is strictly forbidden at my location.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

What a weirdo!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh rama-lama-ding-dong at it again I see.