Elon Musk’s employees are supposed to sleep in the authority. Is that legal?

It is the classic silicone-valley mentality: absolute time commitment, the work is provided. Bosses sleep under the table in their office to motivate their employees, and they too should be best around the clock in the company. To continue to tinker with the great ideas.

This mentality now reaches US administration. According to media reports, employees of the Doge, the department for government efficiency led by Elon Musk, are increasingly involved in administration for sleeping. US President Donald Trump founded Doge on his first working day by decree.

According to a report by the US news portal “Politico”, employees on the sixth floor of the General Services Administration (GSA) in the city center of Washington DC, with beds, lamps and chests of drawers from Ikea have. In addition, a washing machine and a dryer are said to have been ordered. There should also be a play area for children with plush animals and toys. According to the employees who spoke to “Politico”, these rooms should only be accessible with a high -security release. How the rooms are used and how long they have been prepared is unclear.

Ethics experts criticize that these measures could violate applicable rules. In a announcement by the GSA 2019 it says

According to a spokesman for the GSA, government employees “incredibly hard and long to reduce the state deficit and to ensure an effective government”. And further: “All purchases that the agency made followed all corresponding laws and regulations.” Accordingly, the sleeping of employees in the building was explicitly allowed.

Musk has long made friends with the idea of ​​sleeping at work and even living in his workplace. , the Tesla factory in Nevada was its main residence for several years.

He slept on a sofa or under his desk in the factory hall: “Since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during the shift change, they knew that I was there, and that made a big difference, they made everything.” , Musk considers the five-day week to be an arbitrary construct that was designed and enforced by woken anti-capitalists.

The Chairman of the Watchdog Organization Crew (“Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington”), Donald Sherman, also criticizes that this work morality is now being carried into state authorities: “This government dismisses working, federal agency, pretting the protection of the public service for government agencies,” he told “Politico”. But she is also so desperate in search of workers that they allow other government employees or to show them to sleep at the place of work. “That makes no sense.”

A federal official who has already worked under two democratic and two Republican governments comments on the procedure as follows: “I have never heard of something like that. I can’t even imagine what the purpose is to terrorize the state officials.”

that sofa beds were brought to the headquarters of the OPM staff office. Also to reduce the bureaucracy and smash large parts of the administration. , to be able to react to all nightly inquiries from Musk. A member is said to have even moved into a makeshift apartment in the building with his wife and little child.

The democratic MP Suhas Subramanyam from Virginia drew attention to the grievance. In the clip, he tries to get into different federal buildings with a pillow and a blanket – without success.

According to Subramanyam, the problem with Doge is that there is very little transparency and accountability: “You just do what you want without having to show yourself, let alone explain why you are doing things.” At the end of February, the MP brought in a draft law for more transparency in the congress.