More To Come?
It’s fair to suggest that more mandates will no doubt follow with Trump calling remote working policies “terrible” and “ridiculous.”
His two DOGE chiefs — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — are also outspoken advocates of having everyone in the office full time. Musk has enforced strict policies at his own ventures and voiced his plan to do the same in Government.
In a Wall Street Journal op ed, the duo wrote: “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home.”
Musk has also stated that the RTO mandate is a way of slimming down the federal workforce – with a wave of “voluntary terminations.” He said that workers who can’t make being in the office five days a week work for them should quit and move on.
He isn’t alone in taking such a brutal stance. It is a charge that was laid squarely at Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy – though he denied it.
