Subject: Re: What % of feds come in to the office?
So what percentage of federal workers do you suppose actually goes their offices?

That's not exactly right.

Per the report you cited, only about a third of federal workers are fully remote. The 6% figure is the number that work from an office full-time. Presumably the remaining 2/3 or on a hybrid schedule, where they work some time in an office and some times not. But many of these are just people that have jobs that aren't office jobs. Obviously that depends on what you're counting - the report isn't linked, but if it's all federal workers then that would include a huge number of active duty military personnel and all those postal workers. If it's not, there's still countless federal jobs that don't involve sitting in an office full time - whether it's DEA agents or an orderly in a VA hospital or parks personnel or museum docents or what have you.

There's no link to the actual report, so we don't know. Per the OMB report, about 50% of the federal workforce works every day in a job that cannot be done remotely (ie. that VA hospital nurse or a park ranger). Of the remainder, about 60% of hours are performed in agency-assigned job sites anyway. OMB says that's similar to what the private sector is like (I can say that's on par with my law firm's RTO results).

So undoubtedly there's probably surplus federal office space. They definitely should look at right-sizing that. But the overwhelming majority of federal workers will, in fact, report physically to their workplaces for at least part of the time.