#telework

January 27, 2026 - Day 222

My letter to reps:

Remote work is a part of modern society and should be prioritized wherever it can be in order to facilitate disability accommodation, tamp down fossil fuel expense and emissions, and reduce the spread of disease. Telework is a necessary part of a functional future society and should be incentivized in government work and private industry, wherever at all possible.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.

Government Executive -  Trump’s ‘DOGE’ commission promises mass federal layoffs, ending telework The incoming administration will handle large-scale RIFs with compassion, Vivek Ramaswamy says. November 18, 2024 01:40 PM ET “So this is a historic opportunity. We're not actually going to squander this.” He added that reductions to telework and relocating agencies would help motivate employees to leave government voluntarily. He called it a “dirty little secret” that most federal workers “don’t even show up to work.”  About 80% of the federal work hours are currently spent in-person, according to a recent Office of Management and Budget review, and more than half of federal employees do not telework at all because their jobs are not conducive to it. Of those who do telework, employees on average spent about three-fifths of their time on site.  “If you require most of those federal bureaucrats to just say, like normal working Americans, you come to work five days a week, a lot of them won't want to do that,” Ramaswamy said. “If you have many voluntary reductions in force of the workforce in the federal government along the way, great. That's a good side effect of those policies as well.”

Many people in various jobs in various industries public and private legitimately work remotely. A lot of CEOs work remotely. A lot of business owners work remotely.

This attempt to marry telework to the old disinformation cliche trope of “people don-wanna work” is dishonest. Tycoons want to “shrink the government in order to drown it in the bathtub” because they don’t want to pay taxes, and that’s the dirty little secret laid bare here — they don’t want to pay taxes, and they don’t want anyone to create a functional society for people. They want a rigidly enforced class society made up of tycoons and all the rest, with everyone in servitude under a microscope marching to their petty self-serving orders. I’m guessing a lot of Trump voters work remotely, because in a modern society it is a norm! I suspect that even Trump voters don’t actually want to go backwards on this. What about Elon Musk futuristic fans? Do they think ending modern remote options in various fields should happen? It doesn’t really make sense that these tech moguls are so against modern tech solutions, right?

Nobody is fooled — It doesn’t make sense for anybody but the billionaires.