“When there are good tools there, the GSA work is to produce them, not medium alternatives,” he added.
“Have you used this artificial intelligence to organize [reduction in force]? “Asked another federal worker.
“When is Adobe Pro given us?” He said another “This is an important program that we use daily.
Employees also retreated to return to office instructions. “How [return to office] Increase collaboration that none of our customers, contractors or people are in us [integrated product teams] Are they supposed to be in the same office? “A GSA worker asked,” We will still do all things through email or Google sessions. “
One employee asked Ehikian who the DOGE team in GSA is actually. Ehikian replied, “There’s no DOGE team in GSA.” Employees, many of whom have seen DOGE employees in GSA, did not buy it. “It is as if we found out that a bunch of young kids work behind a safe area on the 6th floor,” said one employee. Luke Factor, a former Spacex trainee, who has worked in DOGE since the first days of the organization, has been wearing sunglasses inside the GSA office, as Ithan Shautran, another young DOG worker who recently served as president of Harvard Mountaineering Club. A GSA employee described Shutran as a “smiling in a t -shirt and t -shirt”.
GSA did not respond immediately to the request sent by Wired.
During the session, Ehikian showed a slide showing details of GSA goals-size, simple operations, deregulation and IT innovation-while saving current costs. “Avoid Costs Avoid” with $ 1.84 billion. The number of employees made of GSA -made AI tools is listed in 1,383. The number of hours is said to be 178352. Ehikian also noted that the agency has canceled or reduced 35354 credit cards used by government workers and terminated 683 leases. (Wired cannot confirm any of these statistics. DOGE is known to share misleading and inaccurate statistics on saving efforts.)
A GSA employee wrote in a chat: “Every productivity calculation requires a denominator.” “Reduction can reduce costs, but they can also reduce the value delivered to the US. How is it captured on a scorecard?”
In a slide entitled “Road ahead”, the beneficiaries expressed their views for the future. Read one of the columns: “Federal real estate portfolio”. “Shopping Center”, read another. Sub -categories include “Reduce the Corresponding Freight to Increase Competition”, “Focusing Our Data for Access to Teams” and “GSA Cloud and Software Optimization”.
Online, employees seemed. “So, does Stephen intend to restrict himself in any federal contract after his period as GSA manager, especially with artificial intelligence and information technology software?” Asked an employee in the cap. There was no answer
