"Further, telework-eligible employees at several agencies collectively spend less than half their work hours in the office—below ... House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., ...

The hearing on federal telework policies ... and that includes back in the office,” said Greene, who will chair a Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee that aims to coordinate ...

While the federal government initially allowed telework during the COVID-19 ... taxpayers were still spending $3.3 billion on new office furniture. The report says that Social Security ...

But conservatives and other critics of telework point to vast unused government ... “absent” employees be seen in their office chairs, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who leads a caucus aligned ...

Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell called on agency leaders in a new memo to immediately change their telework policies to require federal employees to be in the office full ...

Ernst was appointed as the chair of the newly formed Senate ... According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), telework policies vary by federal agency and an arrangement is usually ...

This matches the sentiments of former presidential candidate and co-chair of the Department ... By reducing the need for physical office space, telework can lead to substantial cost savings ...