President Donald Trump took time away from {golfing} to communicate to a gaggle of billionaires on the Saudi Public Future Funding Initiative Institute summit in Miami, throughout which he complained about distant work.
“All federal employees must once again show up to work. It’s a new phenomenon. You know, since COVID. Show up to work in person like the rest of us. “You can’t work at home. They’re not working. They’re playing tennis, they’re playing golf, or they have other jobs, but they’re not working or they’re certainly not working hard. You could never build a company or a country with that,” he stated.
One among Trump’s first edicts was to concern a memo demanding all federal employees to return to the workplace whereas he went … {golfing}.
Since then, Trump’s itinerary has included journeys to the Tremendous Bowl, a publicity stunt on the Daytona 500, and much more {golfing}—all at taxpayers’ expense.
It isn’t shocking. Whereas billionaire Elon Musk is busy dismantling U.S. administrative features, Trump is selecting up the place his first administration left off: spending time at his many estates and taking part in loads of golf.
Throughout Trump’s first go-around, his golf behavior set historic information in prices to the U.S. taxpayer, and it appears to be like like he’s on observe to interrupt that file. Up to now, it has been estimated that Trump’s golf sport has value People round $10.7 million, with Trump heading to the golf course at the least 10 instances in his first 31 days in workplace.
As for the federal employees who haven’t been fired or positioned on administrative go away, analysis reveals that distant work advantages each employees and employers. There’s additionally proof that girls and minority teams are negatively impacted probably the most by an absence of distant or hybrid work choices.
However so long as Trump’s golf sport isn’t affected, why would he care?
