A Jan. 28 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims to share a statistic about the prevalence of remote work among those employed by the U.S. government.
“It appears that only 6% of all federal employees work full-time in an office,” text of the post reads in part.
Versions of the claim circulated widely both and before President Donald Trump took office for his second term, and they were amplified by members ofCongress, leading conservative commentators and the Trump White House.
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The latest figures show 54% of federal employees perform their work duties fully on-site, not 6%, according to a federal agency’s August 2024 report to Congress that examined the majority of federal employees. The claim misrepresents the results of a news outlet’s unscientific survey that was not designed to reflect the federal workforce as a whole, according to one of its editors.
The Trump administration has vowed to slash the federal workforce and bring employees who work remotely back to their offices, claiming a link between telecommuting and federal bloat and citing the figure in the post as evidence of it.
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