President Donald Trump made the exaggerated claim that federal office space is “occupied by 4%” of federal workers to bolster his argument for dramatically downsizing the federal workforce and demanding that most workers return to the office full time.

In fact, more than half of the nearly 2.3 million federal workers are not even eligible to work from home at all, according to an Office of Management and Budget report released in August 2024. As of May of that year, among those eligible to telework for a portion of their hours, 61% of their working hours were spent in-person at assigned job sites. Only 228,000 — about 10% of the federal workforce — were entirely remote.

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    Why the fuck do all these assholes want people back in the office so badly?

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      People up top don’t want to be better than you, they want you to know they are better than you. They want your life worse so they can enjoy your misery.

      The animals at the bottom are not even human anymore they’ll do anything demanded of them

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        What a nice bunch of people! We should do whatever they say!

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      Because until EVERYONE is remote no one is remote. SPREAD THE MISERY! DON’T LET THOSE OTHER CRABS OUT OF THE BUCKET!