According to a new report on Friday, the US government’s watchman found a “rampant abuse” for work from work from federal employees.
The General Inspector General of Personnel Management Bureau (OPM), who oversees the federal workforce, has identified “conformity failures and weak internal care” as the main cause of the problem. The report focused on procedures that allowed the staff to work remotely, not whether they did their job effectively.
The report was taken with a penalty data, a time sheets and time sheets and remote contracts related to dozens of federal employees in 2024, during the 2023 time of the President Joe Biden’s administration. Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Ajova, who took a remote recreation policy.
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“The era of remote remote remote period is over,” Ezel said. “Presidential Trump’s instructions have restored personal operations to ensure that federal employees work for taxpayers.”
Theodore Roosevelt Building in Washington, DC, Headquarters of the Personnel Management Bureau (Copyright 2024 Associated Press. All Rights Protected)
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order indicating federal agencies and departments to “take all necessary action to terminate remote work agreements” and demand that the employees return to the office full -time.
Federal staff had to return on March 3; Therefore, the OPM report findings and recommendations aimed at developing written procedures that detail the internal control of remote work are now considered closed, according to a summary.
OPM is the Chief Human Resources Agency and the Federal Government $ 2.8 million. Employee Personnel Policy Manager.
President Trump said many federal employees had taken second jobs while still paying the federal government, or did not dispense his duties remotely.
In the first trump administration, the Covidid-19 pandemic increased significantly at home.
According to a small Timesheets sample, the report shows that 58.1 % Selected employees in 2024 Failed to comply with the minimum requirements for work in the office.
According to the OPM General Inspector, three out of ten (29.7%) remote remote work agreements ended, 21%. The number of those selected were the differences between their documents and 15 percent had no approved agreements.
The report did not investigate why this was the case, but suggested that possible causes included “weak or missing control”, “negligence or negligence” and “intentional fraud or abuse”.
According to the order signed by President Trump, which obliges the work to return the work at the institution, limited exceptions are permitted by the heads of the department.
Similarly, new internal control and compliance reviews were identified to employees who continue to distance work.
When the employees were called back to their offices five days a week in March, many of them were met less than the desired conditions, ranging from tight workplaces to dirty bathrooms.
In addition to returning to the office, Trump’s administration also sought to reduce costs by reducing space and employees.
Several federal employees in various agencies and departments at the time told News Outlets that they were elbows to their elbows as employees were consolidated at smaller jobs.
Too few workers’ cleaning crews are reported to keep up with the demand for neat places, so dirty bathrooms without paper towels.
Some employees were asked to bring their toilet paper or help pick up trash, a federal employee said USA today;