Government Executive – OMB leader defends administration’s approach to telework House Republicans continued to demand better data from the Biden administration regarding the prevalence and effectiveness of telework at federal agencies. APRIL 30, 2024 “At the onset of the COVID pandemic, massive federal employee telework was a justifiable necessity, but that necessity ended a long time ago,” Comer said. “Yet massive telework continues under the Biden administration, which is intent on making it a permanent fixture of federal work life. How do we know this is in the best interest of the public? The only data we’ve seen on that is a survey of federal employees themselves, and they think it’s working great.” Miller said his office is working with federal agencies to collect the data required by Congress in its most recent spending agreement, but noted that, when including the around 50% of federal employees with no access to telework, 80% of the federal workforce is working in-person on any given day.
C.difficile is endemic in many nursing homes and hospitals, so should we stop hand washing because c.diff and flu are here to stay? Nonsense. Endemic disease pretty much means PERMANENT infection controls. Where malaria is endemic, they don’t stop using mosquito nets —the use of mosquito nets is standard — and sometimes mandated in hotels in malaria endemic regions.
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