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One effect of all this, many federal employees tell WIRED, is that they are travelling long distances in order to spend all of their time in virtual meetings. A Treasury employee says they spend most of their time at the office on video calls as well. www.wired.com/story/federa...

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Wrong! We WERE spending time in virtual meetings. I used to spend half my day in meetings with various Federal Labs (APL, SANDIA, PNWL, MITRE, SEI). Gone without as much as a goodbye. I now spend my days pretending to do the work of 150 senior security engineers and researchers.

It isn’t just traveling to work to sit on Zoom calls—it’s that there may be no place to take the call, or no working internet to connect to it. WIRED granted employees anonymity to speak freely about their experiences. www.wired.com/story/federa...

Though Trump and Musk have claimed the mandate would result in huge productivity increases, more than 30 federal employees at 17 federal agencies tell WIRED the return to office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.

wired.com'Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down': Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going TerriblyDozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return-to-office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suf...