The world’s richest man, Elon Musk has said that the majority of government workers in the US don’t show up at work.
Musk stated this on his X handle, saying that the number of those who show up to work is less than 1% of the workforce.
He wrote, “If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%! Almost no one.”
The billionaire was responding to a US Senate report which disclosed that only 6% of federal workers show up in person on a full-time basis.
According to the report, 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 Senator Joni Ernst’s office found.
Ernst’s office had been investigating the federal government’s telework protocols for the past year and a half.
The senator 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.
He wrote in the report, “The nation’s capital is a ghost town, with government buildings averaging an occupancy rate of 12[%]. “If federal employees can’t be found at their desks, exactly where are they?”
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