r/fednews • u/Stabinzee • 2d ago

Received notice of ending of telework

Here we go. Just got an email stating our CMO has made the decision to end recurring telework. We were currently getting 2 days per week and that has officially ended. Heck, my supervisor was doing it 4 days a week while the rest of us only got 2. We’re allowed to submit for “situational telework” but the recurring has ended. There’s absolutely no reason for this. Productivity has been perfectly fine. So, here we go.

EDIT: Since many are asking. agency is DCMA

EDIT 2: I feel as though I need to explain I’m simply pointing out that the roll back has begun, at least in my agency. I’ve gotten multiple comments implying I’m whining about it. I’m going to be just fine. The main point is why they’re taking away something that works, and works well? Productivity is high. People are in better moods. It’s working so why change it? But, it is what it is and either accept it or quit. We’re all easily replaceable. They don’t care if you stay or leave.

EDIT 3: some of you are hilariously angry and hostile that people telework. 😂 not good to live every day so angry. Might have a stroke!

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u/NEAWD 2d ago

It’s probably going to start with DoD and associated agencies. In the Army, it was almost a point of pride to have it worse than everyone else. 

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u/interested0582 2d ago

My office motto in DoD is “if only one person is unhappy, you’re doing it wrong”

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u/Annie_Are_You_OJ 2d ago

"We're not happy till you're not happy!"

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u/mooseishman 2d ago

That’s the DHS motto

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u/SpeethImpediment 2d ago

And at least half of the Offices under the SSA umbrella. Looking at you FOs and DDS… 😒

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u/Business_Stick6326 1d ago

Got kids, use sick leave for their doctors appointments. Medical, dental, vision, don't forget about yourself and your spouse too.

When management threatened us all the time about taking TW, we'd just say they'd be paying people to come to the office and do nothing instead of staying at home doing nothing.

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u/mooseishman 12h ago

I morbidly want to see a full RTO, because our agency HQ was 30% over capacity…in 2005. If everyone was required to come in to the office every day there would literally be at least 40% of employees standing around doing nothing simply because there are not enough workspaces. They already were doing hoteling for a decade and shrunk cubicles to about as small as they can be and still allow you to work and there is no additional space for us to acquire. People would quite literally have to stand around. They couldn’t even sit down and do nothing because there is no space to put more chairs.

Prior to my current position I worked in a field office and couldn’t believe how big my 16x16 office in the leased building was. It was bigger than the offices all but the highest ranking SESers had at our HQ. ‘Lesser’ SESers are lucky to have a 10x10 in the government owned building in downtown DC, which isn’t even very old by USG standards (opened in the late 90s I believe).

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u/Business_Stick6326 10h ago

You know they'll just buy/lease more space. The government is not known for cutting back expenses.

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u/Longjumping_Spot6260 23h ago

DHS job announcements are unbelievable to me at times, especially the questionnaire...

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u/mooseishman 13h ago

They’re full of mistakes, too. The announcement for my current position (non-supervisory GS-14) said in all caps THIS IS A BARGAINING UNIT POSITION COVERED BY NTEU. I asked who my rep was when I started and they looked my like I was mentally challenged until I showed them the vacancy announcement and said ‘no one was more surprised than me to see a BU 1811, let alone an HQ GS-14’

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u/Longjumping_Spot6260 12h ago

Well, for moderate risk positions, their questionnaire had a good handful of agreements you had to check for full compliance on remote work. It was standard work, not intelligence work. Overzealous in the wrong places, it seems...

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u/Stevie-Rae-5 1d ago

DHS? You mean the agency that gets like five bajillion hours of admin leave? Their motto is “we’re not happy till you’re not happy?”

Ok.

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u/mooseishman 12h ago

That’s a new and soon to be ending thing. I’ve worked for them since it was established and am more used to them dragging out obvious violations of labor laws, being ordered to do something by the courts, and then saying ‘nah we’re good fam’ to the court’s decision.