a16z founder: DOGE will crack down on 'only 2 days in 2 months' for US federal government employees, all changed to physical work

The new Trump administration is set to take office on the 20th. TSL CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will officially lead the ‘Government Efficiency Department’ (DOGE). Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, revealed on the 15th that DOGE’s current priority is to promote the return of federal employees to physical offices. As the Trump administration is about to take office on the 20th, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital giant a16z, revealed on a podcast at the Hoover Institution on the 15th that getting government employees back to the office is one of DOGE’s top priorities, and DOGE has ‘very clever ideas’ in personnel, government spending, and regulations. Marc Andreessen, self-proclaimed ‘unpaid intern’ at DOGE, said that the average utilization rate of federal office buildings is only 25%, and how to deal with the number of remote federal employees is a problem that the DOGE team is currently considering. Marc Andreessen described federal buildings in Washington, D.C. as basically ghost towns, with security agencies still working full-time in the office, while others do not. Marc Andreessen pointed out that some federal employees have formed unions and are allowed to work remotely based on protocols, while others only go to the office one or two days a month, and some even schedule their workdays separately, going to the office only two days every two months. If you ask any CEO of an American company about the current situation and what employees are doing, every CEO will tell you… ‘What happened? Are these people really working?’ If you are not in the office, can you still be considered a federal government employee? The DOGE plan is only a suggestion. In December 2024, Musk and Ramaswamy told the U.S. Congress that they plan to cut $2 trillion in government spending, but experts from both parties have expressed concerns. Republican Senator Joni Ernst is a supporter of DOGE and is also the advocate of the proposal to restore physical offices. Her office previously released a report stating that only 6% of government employees regularly work in the office. Musk later stated that if security and maintenance personnel are excluded, the proportion of federal employees working full-time in the office may be as low as 1% working 40 hours per week. It should be noted that DOGE is an informal government agency and plans to end its operations on July 4, 2026. The proposal to restore physical offices by DOGE is only a ‘suggestion,’ and Marc Andreessen believes that this is how it should be, and it will be the president’s decision.