💼 Will you fall foul of Musk’s RTO mandates and be forced to quit?

In an op-ed this week, Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy suggested that requiring federal workers to return to the office would ‘result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.’

Writing in the Wall Street Journal this week, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—who were recently tapped to lead the newly minted Department of Government Efficiency—touched on a topic that continues to be a source of friction in workplaces across corporate America.

“If there are people who just don’t work well in that environment and don’t want to, that’s okay, there are other companies around,” 

In their op-ed, Musk and Ramaswamy offered insight into how the new initiative, known as DOGE, might cut costs and reduce the size of the federal government. They hinted at their plans to trim head count across the civil service—in part by mandating that federal workers return to the office full-time. “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home,” they wrote.

A report released by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) earlier this year revealed that federal employees eligible for telework were already spending more than 60% of their time working from the office. Still, the change in policy that Musk and Ramaswamy are advocating for could impact more than a million employees—about half the overall federal workforce, in fact—who are currently able to work from home at least some of the time.

Read the complete Fast Company article BY Pavithra Mohan: https://www.fastcompany.com/91233536/elon-musk-believes-remote-work-is-a-covid-era-privilege-federal-workers-quit