
National Security: Work and productivity
The Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, under the guidance of Elon Musk, has found that most non-uniformed federal government employees have not been showing up at the office to work for five years. With the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, federal employees (and many others) worked from home. With the help of their union (AFGE) and the Biden Administration, their work-from-home status was extended indefinitely. I’ve seen estimates that only six percent returned to work