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New GAO Report Reveals Federal Employees Prefer WFH
A new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that three-fourths of federal agencies are using their headquarters less than a quarter of the time, even more than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, reported by Washington Business Journal. The report comes as congressional leaders and the Biden administration have been urging federal employees to return to more in-office work.
The GAO report found that federal agencies face barriers to increasing their in-office presence, including a lack of funding to modernize office buildings for hybrid work, reluctance to share headquarters space, and concerns about future changes to return-to-office mandates.
With reduced daytime activity leading to restaurant closures and commercial office defaults, the General Services Administration, which oversees federal office spaces, called for additional funding to maintain and upgrade federal office spaces and suggested that disposing of under-utilized real estate could be a potential solution.
- ◦Economy
