New York Post: Top DOGE Elon Musk, House speaker balk at Senate report showing only 6% of federal workers show up in person on full-time basis: ‘Absurd’ 2_nypost_telework_abuse

December 6, 2024 11:56 AM

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By Ryan King | Published at New York Post

They’re being remote-ly professional. 

A paltry 6% of the federal workforce “report in-person on a full-time basis” while almost one-third of federal workers are remote on a full-time basis, in a sharp turn-around from the pre-pandemic era in which only 3% teleworked daily, a report from Sen. Joni Ernst’s office found.

Ernst (R-Iowa), who has long crusaded against the rise in remote federal work, is planning to reveal the fruits of her office’s year and a half inquiry to Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy during their visit to the Capitol Thursday.

“President Biden is setting the example. He was out of office 532 days over the last three and a half years, about 40[%] of the time he was expected to be in the Oval Office,” she chided. 

Her office collaborated with Open the Books, a nonprofit group that advocates for government transparency for taxpayers and claims that the Biden administration redacted the “work locations of over 281,000 rank-and-file federal employees.”

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