If the Biden administration isn’t going to get federal workers back into the office, a waste-watching senator says it’s time for the government to sell off desks.
Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, is calling on agencies to take a hard look at who they are still allowing to telework at this late stage of the pandemic, figure out if it makes sense to keep them at home, and if so, make sure taxpayers aren’t paying for their office space anymore.
She fired off letters to two dozen inspectors general asking them to review their agencies and figure it all out by studying use of access key cards and computer logins to figure out who’s working when and where. That some employees who used to come to the officer are still out of the office post-pandemic is not in dispute.One survey last fall of access key cards to federal buildings in the District of Columbia found just 5% of the pre-pandemic workforce swiped in on an average workday.
“Our auditors estimate it’s $36 billion worth of salary and bonus compensation to employees we cannot meaningfully hold accountable. We don’t know who they are, what they do, whether they are in fact working 40 hours, or from where they’re phoning in,” said Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.
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