re: Now at 2,994 consecutive work days working from my home

What are they going to do? Come into the office? Yea right they do that and they will go find other work. They don’t come in fired.

Plenty will quit over the threat of wfh. You see it every day in the real world.

I started WFH ~70-80% in 2005 except for a brief full blown office gig 2007-08 that devolved back to 80% home.

Then 100% (apart from rare meetings/court appearances) home since 2014. I think I’d work the fields before I went back to an office.

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I think I’d work the fields before I went back to an office.

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I guess it depends. If I could only find an office job, I wouldn't mind. But I just prefer not to. Our office is only 15 minutes from my house, so it's no big deal but at my current job, we will never get the order to come in, no matter what the President says.

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The private side can do whatever it wants with work from home.

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Exactly, if WFH is so beneficial to productivity, the whole reason one is paid to perform a job, then those companies that still allow it will clearly separate themselves from the market,

or they wont.



For the public sector, we have waaay too many people. We need to make DEEP cuts so these people can move into private sector and be more productive humans for the USA. People that want to quit simply because they cant WFH, seems like a no brainer place to start.

They'll be able to find their WFH jobs in the private sector,

or they wont.




This is how it's supposed to work, capitalism.

You don’t think they will make people go in?

I’m not sure what the disconnect here is: they want less federal employees, you put in office work and some self select out immediately, some go in a bit and then leave, some sky scream and stomp their feet and are fired. Then you have some come in and they suck so fired, that leaves whatever population and if it’s too many, you give them a package and send them on their way.

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And it's not going to change unless I decide that's what I want which for right now, I don't. I've only got 10 more years to retirement. To be fair, I'm a contractor but there's no way they'll be able to successfully force everyone to come into an office without dishing out more money. And hardly anyone will quit just over being forced to come in. If it came down to it, I would force them to fire me and collect a lot of severance pay plus unemployment. No biggie.

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I’m with you. Coming into work for me means going to an office where zero people there are my coworkers and colleagues. It’s the same as working from home but only in an office I have to waste time getting there in a 45 minute daily commute.

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I'm a contractor

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I would force them to fire me and collect a lot of severance pay plus unemployment.

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You are a contractor. Why would you feel entitled to severancem

Also, if you 'force' a company to fire you, good luck claiming unemployment.

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I did come in yesterday and ate some BBQ catered for lunch.

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You ruined your streak over BBQ? Cal Ripken is ashamed...

I agree with most of your post, however if I have 2 employees, who do outstanding work, and one WFH and the other comes into the office, assuming this is a business with an office. The one in the office is more valuable to me, so if I had to choose to fire one, it's a clear decision. They are available for spontaneous phone calls, tasks, brainstorms; at predictable times with less distractions that are outside my control. They are easier to govern. It's a no brainer assuming all else equal.


The Onus is on a private business to get the productivity and profitability they want out of an employee and they can do it however they want. The free market will self correct WFH if it isn't effective. There are OBVIOUS holes in governing productivity in a public sector where there isn't the same incentive to be efficient or profitable. WFH is a huge liability in that environment, and it should be eliminated immediately.

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And hardly anyone will quit just over being forced to come in.

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And this would be where you come to me or anyone else for a job and i offer you less. You don't need as much money if you spend 3,000 straight days in your home.

So you most likely won't quit, but your employer can fire your arse and have no consequences because of at will. So good luck.