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Wouldn’t work from home allow the government to sell office buildings it doesn’t need, and therefore save money?
Yeah but work from home pisses off two major Republican sub-groups. One- being someone's boss gives them a woody. A chance to feel like they're towering over someone else gives them meaning to their life. Two- republicans hate when people have it better than them, thus born the stereotype of it being truly American to work harder for less money. Get those lazy asses back to hard murican labor, and no free healthcare.
Three - they're heavily invested in commercial real estate and need bodies in suites to throw more gold on their hoard
Not likely, and there's a...well, not really good...maybe understandable, or relatable... reason for it.
It has to do with the cost of commercial real estate, and the government being a barometer for private sector.
If the government says "everyone RTO", companies be like "cmon that means us too". Especially so for government contractors.
But if people stay remote...then there's no need for these big buildings in cities. So they sit vacant or underutilized. And then there's a surplus of commercial real estate, and the commercial real estate sector falls in on itself, and a bunch of other bad things happen.
But wait, there's more.
Why live in expensive, densely packed, overpriced cities, if not for being in close proximity to high paying jobs? Likely what would follow is urban residential and MDU/MFU values tanking as there's an exodus from cities and nearby towns. And while that might be good for people who don't own property, a lot of people, especially middle-class people in commuter-ville, will probably be losing their nest-egg. More than likely to be picked up cheap by somebody to build a warehouse or a datacenter or luxury condos or something. Something that takes up a lot of space but doesn't need a lot of staff.
People will quit on their own or get fired for not following the order, either way forfeiting any severance pay. Then the remaining people who RTO will be overworked because they're seen as desperate to keep their job.
And in case it's not obvious, musky and ramyswamy don't actually give a shit about government efficiency. Trump appointed them as repayment for helping his campaign and they'll probably both steal money from the government and get pardoned by Trump if they get caught.
And now Trump stuck Greene in there with them to get her to shut up about ethics reports.
They'll most likely cut shit that helps them personally. Leon doesn't like the FTC and anything that he thinks is inconvenient to his companies.