• tal@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    kagis

    It sounds like he would have the authority to require in-office work.

    https://www.opm.gov/frequently-asked-questions/telework-faq/remote-work/

    Does an employee have a right to engage in remote work?

    No. Remote work is not a universal employee benefit or an employee right.

    Can a manager deny a request for remote work?

    Yes. Because of the policy and potential costs implications of remote work arrangements, agencies should evaluate and consider such requests (especially those submitted primarily for the convenience of the employee), on a case-by-case basis, highlighting the cost effectiveness and business benefits to the agency or organization.

    Can a manager terminate an existing remote work arrangement?

    Yes. An agency may determine that a remote work arrangement no longer meets the business needs of the organization or that the arrangement negatively impacts the employee’s performance. However, terminating a remote work arrangement, particularly if the employee resides outside the local commuting area of the agency worksite, may require additional considerations. If the decision is made to terminate the remote work arrangement for business reasons, there may be costs implications for the agency to consider.

    That being said, my guess is that at least some federal employees probably pretty much have to work outside of the office, just because of the nature of the job – like, it may be travel-intensive. I guess they could end work-from-home stuff.

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    A people elected government has a mandate to protect its people. Its real frightening to see that instead it announces adopt the worst business practises of private economy.

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    I contract for uscis. It’s fully distributed, there’s no way to enforce this without crippling the agency. So it would hobble the mass deportation plan. Very curious how this might turn out

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      Since they’re both just mouthing off about things they have zero understanding of, based on an over-inflated sense of their own knowledge and competence, this will probably turn out about like most things Trump has tried to do. It’ll either go nowhere and they’ll just stop speaking of it, or they’ll try to force something through and make a mess that someone else will have to clean up.

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    You got to love this. The Pentagon just failed its 7th audit in a row. It has a budget of $1tr. And yet the cost savings team decides that penny pinching by making life harder for workers is where the real savings are to be found. Not the giant black hole of finance which is the military industrial complex.

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      You’ve gotta look at it from the perspective of a poor multibillionaire who desperately needs to buy his fifth superyatch so he can work his five CEO jobs remotely

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      Noooo shhhhh, we’re not supposed to talk about HOW THE PENTAGON HAS NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT. We’re supposed to be talking about the border, come on people, get it together.

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      It’s interesting they have multiple offices. Offices they’re already not in. If there was a time for a general strike it is forever ago.

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    Imma be real… this isn’t even a GOP vs DNC thing, the government has always fucking haaaaated telework, especially since Covid let the genie out of the bottle.

    It’s still going to be handled significantly worse than the DNC would though.

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    “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome”. this is and was always the reason american businesses were eager to force everybody back tp work. eat the rich.

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      Don’t forget to include giving middle-management a reason to exist as well as justifying the commercial properties expenses! Man do I hate capitalism…

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    Ha ha, joke’s on them. Our office doesn’t have space for all of us. We downsized to …gasp… save money, which is what the federal government is supposed to do. They’d also have to renegotiate the union contract, something they just finished doing, so it’s not something they really even can address for several years at least.

    But Biden isn’t squeaky clean on this either, he mandated some percentage of office space being utilized. Supposedly this was to help local businesses, like the fast food chicken place across the street that has survived without us there for almost 5 years now. (They were renovating our building and had us all move out during the pandemic.)

    But there’s something wrong with the formula being used to calculate utilization of the building - and in our case, even if every cube was full every day, we still wouldn’t meet the requirement, because of how it’s calculated. I don’t have details, but it apparently includes space people can’t occupy - like server rooms and the cafeteria - and there’s no way to get an exception.

    I’m pretty sure upper management would continue the telework setup if they could (I really think they intended to be primarily remote before the Biden administration put the brakes on it). But higher authorities have said no. Our current telework agreement is that we have to go into the office twice per pay period (two weeks), which isn’t too bad, but I’d still prefer not. My return to office is scheduled for February. We’re bracing for a lot of people to find other jobs or retire, and it has already begun.

    I’m hoping to retire in about 7 years. Maybe this next administration will buy me out. I’d be open to a generous severance package.

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      it apparently includes space people can’t occupy - like server rooms and the cafeteria - and there’s no way to get an exception.

      I’m sure they’ve convened a committee to schedule a meeting to begin discussions on the color of the folder for the updated rules that will fix this. So maybe by 2030 you’ll be able to hit your utilization goals.

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        Let the managers decide, then.

        If we won’t let logic or evidence do it, at least the people working directly with their teams and having to deal with them should do it.

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    why federal employees and not the private sector? oh right you want to fire half of the first group.

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      That’s the thing which makes it all funny, RTO in the private sector was a failure.

      Sure some people went back cause they were forced to, but offering remote work for new positions is very popular now.

      Companies have power over their current employees but not the new ones. So the industry is becoming more remote friendly overall as salty CEOs cling on to their smaller and smaller workforce of in office loyalists.

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        Most CEOs are the worst kind of trump bootlickers. And musk too. My last job, CEO thought musk was a genius and had a list of his “rules for business” laminated on his desk.

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        well it is enough for Elon to suggest it. that is the kind of presidency they will be running as is obvious from Disney, IBM etc going back to advertising with Xitter

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    Saying the quiet part out loud again.

    They believe that us not being forced to do what they want simply because they want it is a “privilege,” and one that they can and will just arbitrarily decree to be null and void.

    That says pretty much everything you meed to know about what they really think about everyone other than themselves.

    And ironically enough, what they think is that they themselves are privileged.