When there are great tools out there, GSA's job is to buy them, do not perform trivial replacement, one colleague added.
Do you use this to organize (reduce force)? Ask another federal worker.
“When will Adobe Pro be returned to us?” In other words. This is an important program that we use every day. Please return or at least one day it will return.
Staff were also repelled against the return of office entrustment. How to (return to the office) to increase cooperation when there are no customers, contractors or those of the number (our integrated product group) will be in the same office? A worker GSA asked. We will still carry out all the work via email or Google meetings.
An employee asked Ehikian, who Doge at GSA was really. No DOGE team at GSA, Mr. Ehikian answered, according to two employees who had direct knowledge about events. Employees, many of them saw Doge staff at GSA, did not buy it. Like we did not notice a group of young children working behind a safe area on the 6th floor, one of his employees told Wired. Luke Farritor, a young person Former space internship He has worked at Doge since the first days of the organization, seeing wearing sunglasses inside the GSA office in recent weeks, as well as Ethan ShaotranAnother young Doge recently president of the Harvard climbing club. A GSA employee described Shaotan as a grinning person in a sleeveless shirt and a T -shirt.
GSA did not answer immediately asking for a comment sent by Wired.
During the meeting, Ehikian showed a detailed slide of GSA targets. The overall cost is avoided, listed at US $ 1.84 billion. The number of employees using the AI tools built by GSA has been listed at 1,383. The number of hours saved from automation is considered 178,352. Ehikian also pointed out that the agency canceled or reduced 35,354 credit cards used by government employees and terminated. 683 lease contracts. (Wired cannot confirm any statistics. Doge has been known to share Mischief statistics and inaccurate Regarding its cost -saving efforts.)
Any effective calculation needs a form, an GSA employee wrote in the conversation. Cutting can reduce costs, but they can also reduce the value provided to the American public. How to be caught in the point card?
In a slide entitled The Road Away, Mr. Ehikian set his vision for the future. Optmize's Federal Real Estate Investment Category, reading a pillar. Focus on shopping, reading another person. The extra categories include reducing the compliance burden to enhance competition, focus on our data to be able to access between groups, and optimize the cloud spending and GSA software.
Online, the staff seems to lary. Therefore, Stephen will restrict himself working with any federal contract after the term of GSA administrator, especially related to AI and IT software? Ask an employee in the conversation. There is no answer.