“Right now, over 70% of federal employees are still working from home three years after COVID.”
Nikki Haley
GOP presidential candidate. a town hall in Rye, N.H.. Claim dated 5 Jan 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
The 70% figure includes full-time teleworkers and anyone who ever works from home, however infrequently. Only about half that figure — 37% — worked a majority of the week remotely.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nikki Haley (GOP presidential candidate) made this claim around 5 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 January 2024. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Nikki Haley has 35 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 12 of them false or fake, 19 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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