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    Trumps „DOGE“-Kommission verspricht Massenentlassungen auf Bundesebene und ein Ende der Telearbeit


    Trumps „DOGE“-Kommission verspricht Massenentlassungen auf Bundesebene und ein Ende der Telearbeit

    https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/11/trumps-doge-commission-promises-mass-federal-layoffs-ending-telework/401111/

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    2. Cephalopod_astronaut on

      Does the no-teleworking rule apply to all of the “super high IQ” people working 80-hour weeks for no pay at DOGE?

    3. Mr_Morfin on

      This will run into union contract problems. For instance our contract, signed in 2021, guarantees telework and runs through 2028.

    4. TruthExecutionist on

      He’s going to turn the government into another X. What a fucking shit show.

    5. SicilyMalta on

      Elon’s method is to cut too deep and then after things crash try to entice some employees to come back.

      I suppose he’s anticipating the country to take a nose dive, but he’ll be ok and according to him, the rest of us will just have to endure some pain.

      Nice work MAGA. I hope you get everything you asked for.

    6. HellishChildren on

      I remember the Republicans claiming that unemployment pay kept people from looking for jobs. Wonder when they’ll come after that.

    7. Either_Bed_9262 on

      As of 2023, 30% of the federal workforce were veterans, compared to 5% of the general workforce.

      Of course, Trump and his cabinet are also talking about ending VA healthcare, so their willingness to fuck over veterans to increase tax cuts for the wealthy should come as no surprise.

    8. DramaticWesley on

      What some companies do is fire employees and then later say they will rehire them at a lower wage and sometimes fewer benefits. This feels like the goal.

    10. bravofiveniner on

      So they want to do to the federal gov’t that was done to twitter?

      Oh boy.

    11. EventH0R1Z0N on

      In order to maximize the efficiency gain, the first department that should be eliminated, top to bottom, is the Department of Government Efficiency.

    12. CurrentlyLucid on

      These clowns are going to kill our economy, thanks all you idiots that gave us this.

    13. Zealousideal-Sink273 on

      I’m confused. All of these proposals would increase inefficiencies.

    14. Neverbanned2k4 on

      Guess no overtime taxes doesn’t matter if you lost your job.

    15. 02K30C1 on

      I’m sure they can all take the jobs the deported immigrants had, in farming and meat packing.

    16. ChafterMies on

      Telework lets federal agencies hire people from all over the country instead of concentrating the workforce in Washington. This will be felt all over America.

    18. brakeled on

      Just a reality check for everyone who is not in federal service: the Biden administration has essentially spent the last two years dismantling telework and remote work flexibilities since the pandemic. Many offices now have more stringent rules than pre-COVID and in office requirements that have been set forward by Biden’s cabinet. Cabinet members have even had their performance tied to the percentage of staff in office on average.

      Lobbyists in DC led the demands and the administration bent to those demands to increase profits for businesses downtown after COVID nearly wiped out the DC economy.

      Over 60% of federal employees are in office or on site full time. Only approximately 37% of federal employees telework regularly – compared to 56% of the private workforce. And this telework is limited, usually to 1-2 days per week depending on the agency. Only approximately 10% of federal workers are considered fully remote, compared to 15% of private sector.

      Telework flexibilities have long been dismantled. The first lady Elon and whoever this guy is are going to continue this weird culture war against federal employees but the work has already been done. It’s virtue signaling at its finest.

    19. Colonel_of_Corn on

      Ironic is an understatement when DOGE is meant to increase government efficiency and eliminate redundancy, when the Government Accountability Office exists. One of their main goals is *checks notes* “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively”…

    20. brywalkerx on

      If he has been spending all of his time living inside Trumps anus, hasn’t be been teleworking as CEO of Tesla, Space X, Twitter, Boring, etc?

    23. mvw2 on

      There is good reason why PEOPLE are the targets of their efforts. It isn’t legislation. It isn’t policy. It isn’t process refinement. They don’t even care what the departments do. They don’t care the knowledge, skill sets, and experience of the people. They don’t care about the work they do, the projects, the necessary duties.

      No.

      They want to wipe it clean.

      And then they want to build…something…back up that serves much simpler, much more vested interests.

      They are building a shell of a government, a thing that looks like one by doesn’t function at all like one.

    24. MrRisin on

      Does this guy realize he does not have the authority to carry out his wishes?

    25. istillambaldjohn on

      So, all his plans are really,…..”neat”. but just be mindful that if there is an expected play to remove these federal programs, I’d expect a reduction in federal taxes to all that pay into these programs and not just a blanket reduction to one financial demographic.

      You know,….. the whole “taxation without representation” thing? We can’t just simply keep paying the taxes for the programs that no longer exist,…..or at least shouldn’t be.

      One was just increasing taxes without any reason. This would be to maintain the taxes without any services to justify them.

    27. wombat8888 on

      Crash the economy, offers PPP loans to family and friends. The greatest redistribution of wealth.

    28. Milksteak_To_Go on

      >ending telework

      How convenient that the co-leader of the Dept of Government Efficiency has some cars to sell them.

    29. Wonderful_Delivery on

      Republicans crash the economy , lose election, democrats clean it up, people get frustrated, elect republicans, rinse repeat…

    30. TheEverydayDad on

      I don’t know what I would do if their ideas for the government move forward. I voted blue down the ticket and was hopeful for a Kamala admin, all while understanding trump was the favor to win.

      But so far, if this admin gets what they want, I would lose my job and my VA healthcare and benefits all because 50% of the country voted off vibes and not facts.

      I’m really hopeful that this admin becomes a “death of Stalin” admin where the infighting prevents anything from actually taking place. Yet, I bet they have found ways over the last 4 years to be actually productive in what they want to accomplish.

    31. tibbon on

      Run on creating jobs.

      Then destroy jobs.

      It makes sense to his voters.

    32. MF_CEO on

      There was a guy who tweeted at Elon last week saying he was a fed employee who works remote and how much of a waste it was for them to go into a govt office 2-3 hours away once per week. Leopard meet face

    33. dew7950 on

      They speak so flippantly about laying off American workers. They act like government employees aren’t real people with real bills to pay.

    34. senorvato on

      Hopefully, the people who voted for tRump are the first ones to get their pink slips.

    35. Ok-Breadfruit-2897 on

      Russia is doing well in its job to tear apart America……Putins people now run DC

    36. Kayin_Angel on

      Well, you have two co-chairs of the efficiency department… I have a suggestion

    37. timbervalley3 on

      Nothing says efficiency like making employees have 2 hour commutes to a job that can be done from home!

    39. RDO_Desmond on

      Trump doesn’t work. He watches TV and cheats at golf. If that’s leadership—

    40. GuinnessTheBestBoi on

      There already is a government agency that audits government programs and assesses efficiency: the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

      The fact that they created an additional agency to monitor government efficiency is inherent inefficient…

    41. StenosP on

      Nothing says America First like laying off thousands of Federal employees

    45. stpatr3k on

      Imagine a guy firing most of his employees because of a few millions saved but losing value of the company for 30 or so billions.

    46. MD4u_ on

      The point of all of this is to implement the most efficient way to destroy the economy. They will use the resulting social unrest as an excuse to declare a “national emergency” in order to suspend the constitution and impose their plan to remake the US government and society as they see fit.

      If you haven’t figured it out, the idea is to tear it all down and rebuild the society they want from the ashes.

    47. Revolutionary-Swan77 on

      Seems like cutting office space would be a money saving measure but god forbid the peasants get to work from home.

    48. Snarkys on

      Just so I get this right…. The maga group have voted to cut their healthcare, cut veteran care, cut federal employment (where millions of veterans work), raise taxes on the poor and middle class, invoke tariffs that each of us have to pay for, cozy up to aggressor nations and more.

      Way to go. This is what you wanted. This is what you voted for.

      Now do you understand why we have said you’re in a cult? The writing is on the wall.

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