DOGE looks to shrink the federal workforce by making buildings and commutes 'so crappy' that employees will quit, report [View all]

Source: Fortune

DOGE looks to shrink the federal workforce by making buildings and commutes ‘so crappy’ that employees will quit, report says

Jason Ma
Sun, February 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM EST 2 min read

Part of the Department of Government Efficiency's plan to slash spending and personnel is to boost attrition by depressing morale, sources told the [linkhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/08/doge-musk-goals/|Washington Post].

To do that, up to half of the government's nonmilitary real estate will be liquidated, the report said, resulting in office closures and forcing workers to make longer commutes to comply with President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate.

"We’ve heard from them that they want to make the buildings so crappy that people will leave," a senior official at the General Services Administration, which manages federal property, told the Post. "I think that’s the larger goal here, which is bring everybody back, the buildings are going to suck, their commutes are going to suck."

Once those workers leave, the plan is to use artificial intelligence, according to the report, with DOGE staffers applying AI tools to government records to figure out how to replace humans. At the GSA, managers have been told that DOGE plans to automate a majority of jobs.

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