DOGE Ban on WFH Will Hurt Government Efficiency: Claudia Sahm

Elon Musk last week cut his forecast for savings from the Department of Government Efficiency, which he once predicted would reach $2 trillion, to only $150 billion this year. This amounts to 2% of federal outlays — and even that is overstated, because it ignores the productivity the government will lose from its ban on working from home.

The ban is an abrupt shift. Almost 60% of federal employees are eligible to work from home, and according to the federal Office of Personnel Management, two-fifths of them did some form of remote work (situational, routine or infrequent) in the year ...