re: Imagine only having to show up at your federal job 6 times a year.

Pretty funny if they said every Gov employee and contractor support had to be on-site 75% of the time…they basically pipe bombed that after Covid.

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useless meetings and conferences that take up a lot of time that are not needed.

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Absolutely

The meetings are the worst!

If it is a private sector job or one that does not require a security clearance, why not let it be remote?

One of my sisters is a fed. She goes to the office one day a week, otherwise she's working from home. She's an Auditor at the Labor Department. They encouraged her to work from home. I have no idea why, but she stares at a couple of monitors all day. I guess you can do that from anywhere.

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I work a lot of unpaid OT even though I work from home. So yeah, I hit the gym and make a grocery run when I want

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Say no more Fraudster

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Bunch of Fraudsters

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I don't think you know what fraud is

You certainly showed issues with what 'home" means in the other thread

I called the irs once and the lady was obviously running a daycare. she told me to hold and then I could hear her screaming in the background, "I'm gonna tell your momma!" as at least ten kids were hollering and playing. she came back and told me I'd have to wait for another week for my answer. She only knew my name, a common name and never asked for anything else. Total time of call with her was 35 min.

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This is a problem in the private sector also. I know multiple people who have 2 WFH jobs that run groceries and go to the gym on the clock. It's the biggest scam in Human History and should be made illegal.

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I manage a team of people making software. We have two developers in a Western European country, three in an Eastern European country, and one in Dallas. Our testers are in NY and South Florida. Our project manager is in Maryland, as is my manager. So I'm not sure where you expect me to go clock in.

My employer embraced WFH early on. Sublet our corporate office around June of 2020. The company has approximately tripled in size since then, from maybe $400 million in annual sales to over a billion.

WFH works perfectly for us because we have all have clearly defined objectives, roles, and goals. Some places don't have those, but that's a problem regardless of WFH. Maybe WFH exacerbates the problem, but WFH itself is not the problem.

Yeah, I'll work out or go shopping on occasion during working hours. I'm not "on the clock," though. I'm salary. I've taken work calls at 3:00 AM before. So even when I went into an office, if I needed to step away briefly, I did.

The wage gap, and the privilege gap, between people who work with their minds and people who work with their hands, or otherwise must be physically present somewhere, has been growing steadily for decades now. No one stuck in a job where it's not practical to WFH should be surprised by what's happening. Maybe you didn't know about WFH when you picked your career, but the overall trend around the wage/privilege gap was evident.

Those of us who get the privilege of WFH are the same people who paid attention in school. That's all there is to it.