Captain Obvious - part the third

Well... The Musk Ox, et al, are on the verge of demanding that all Damn Gummint workers return to their offices. At the same time the putative DOGE (fun fact: the word actually means a Venetian Dictator) intends to save (high income) taxpayers money. "Danger Will Robinson", Cognitive dissonance here.

As Dr. McElhone was fond of saying, "It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer..." that these are mutually contradictory orders. Exactly how much the organizations save by not having bodies in the buildings is open to debate, but here's one estimate.

According to Global Workplace Analytics, a remote workforce helped IBM save $50 million on real estate costs.

And that's just part of the savings.

Stupid is as stupid does. Well... OK, the reason for ending remote work isn't better productivity or such, it's just intended to cull the best workers from the Damn Gummint so the Damn Gummint will fail, and give Garfield 2.0 and his henchmen the meme to assert that the Damn Gummint is worthless. And so forth.