Report: Trump Wants to Fire Federal Employees
Who Refuse to Return to Working in Offices

Sounds pretty reasonable to us Normals out here in fly-over country. Fire all of them who won't COME to work, and stay 8 hours a day, five days a week.

Why are they still employed, then? They aren't the bosses, they are the workers. Must be nice.

There is no justification for keeping staff after unused offices get eliminated.

Fire the ones who are MIA and don't hire for those positions. It's called a RIF, Reduction In Force. Same stuff they did yo us in the military in the 1990's.

It will be interesting to see the addresses of the stay at home workers...employed in DC and resides????

The group of Civil Servants I work with on a daily basis all work from home, and I know that our organization is much more productive, since we don't have people constantly dropping into your office to talk sports, etc... When I'm busy, I can set my IM to 'Do Not Disturb' and I'm not bothered, which means I can complete my tasks in a timely fashion.

Go ahead 47 make our day. If the Federal workers won't work from their workplace, remove that workplace, eliminate their jobs.

Who wouldn't prefer to stay home, dressed in pajamas, wearing earbuds and have Starbucks Mocha Strawberry-Layered Latte Frappachino delivered to the front door? Work ethic under the Biden administration was non-existant, as displayed by Kamaladingbat, the Vice-Doorknob.

Given the Leftist slant of so many people in government, they need to be monitored closely and on equipment that can be monitored (not their home computer) to evaluate if they are capable of carrying out the shift in priorities that Trump is going to demand. You cannot do that effectively when they are at home. You want them to do their jobs as defined by the current administration. That is reasonable and fair. They should be evaluated, at work, on that basis.

Headline is wrong. "Amican public wants to fire ....".

Re #6's comment...those people dropping by to bother the oh so overworked 702's are how business gets done and unit cohesion is created. If you have to submit a computer request for every question, the questions wont get asked. I know a manager who has been taking kickbacks and bribes for 40 years. He's been caught and prosecuted, and his lawyers keep getting him off. He hasn't been into work for ten years.Nobody even knows who he is but he collects over 100k a year and will retire soon. Nobody even knows who he is. Work from home is a scam. The taxpayers are being robbed.

Should be a very interesting Battle between the "you can't fire us" Crowd and Trump saying " watch me"! I know some folks who work for the Government who think their Job can't be touched by God Himself, no matter how bad they are at doing it! I'm going to put my money on Trump! He seems to have a way of taking his Hammer and breaking the delicate plates that are supposed be unbreakable!

What controls are put on these employees who claim they are so productive while working from home? Excuse me for saying this, but government employees as a whole are not known for their great work ethic to begin with. No doubt there are some who go the extra mile to get their work done but there are many slackers, too. If private businesses want to go remote that is their choice, but this is our tax dollars. As their ultimate employer, I want them to report in person the majority of the time.

If they can't be fired, reduce their paycheck by one third. That will be offset by all the time they used to spend coming and going, transportation and parking costs, eating away from home etc. Want your full salary? Come to the office as of old.

Have seen plenty of people, so called ‘teleworking’ from home…downtown shopping during work hours. Same pay and benefits as those required to actually go in. Cut their salaries in half and watch them scramble back to work.

Get rid of the agencies they work for. Problem solved. I work from home (since 2008 for the same company), and our problem is work-life balance. We actually have to work at not overworking to the point of burnout because we always have so much to do. Our boss says he doesn't care how many hours we work as long as the work gets done. He's trying, but he's so out of touch. I used to log on in the wee hours of the morning to get tasks done, and several of my coworkers would also be online responding to emails that I sent them. A lot of my coworkers have work stuff on their phones; that's something I refuse to do. I hate talking, texting, emailing, everything on my phone. The best part about my phone is listening to music. Working from home is not a scam everywhere, but it is something that people can take advantage of especially when there's not that much work to do.

DO IT and don't look back. IF they sue, confiscate their retirement money!

I think it depends on the job. If it is writing code for the computer or testing he work is done better without the normal office interference. However, if the position means interaction with anyone then they need to be in the office. Commuting in the DC area is horrible and expensive because of the horrendous road tolls.

You are speaking for a great number of very productive at home workers. However, even fed employees admit the outrageous numbers of fed employees that were told to get back to the office and refuse must be fired.

The Hen and I are appalled at the lack of understanding of the reality of telework. For those who have not done telework, read #6, #16, and #18. If management clearly defines what is supposed to be produced, measures its completion, and the work is not classified, there is no reason to rent an office building to accommodate all workers at the same time. My assumption is that the work is unclassified, performed on a personal computer and on a network. Plumbers cannot telework, but the dispatchers can telework. There is also no reason to hire office workers in the Washington DC area with the higher locality pay. Anyplace that has high speed internet (should be possible throughout the entire USA) can be the worker’s principal duty station. Workers can be re-located to low-cost areas with lower cost of living. New highways would not be needed, only new fiber-optic cable. The Government would provide a laptop and a VPN connection, keeping Government information on official platforms. The VPN checks activity on the circuit (green to yellow to red if no activity). Presenteeism, where the worker shows up in the office and does not accomplish anything, does not guarantee productivity. On the other hand, teleworkers can be subject to mandatory unscheduled telework, which will maintain productivity when Washington DC shuts down because of snow and or ice storms. As for unauthorized absence from the computer for shopping trips, how is that different than the absences for breakfast and lunch at the cafeteria? The other time-destroyer is meetings, and the time spent going to and from the meetings. In the Washington DC region, one can spend an hour going to a meeting and an hour returning from a meeting because the location of the meeting is across town. A Microsoft Teams meeting has a one minute commute time. If the meeting is discussing something outside of why you are there, you can work on other tasks on your computer rather than stare at the wall. Rude Rooster