Nikki Haley exaggerates rate of federal telework

For many Americans, the coronavirus pandemic has receded into the past. But it wrought some lasting changes on the nation’s workforce — a point Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley described at a Jan. 2 town hall in Rye, New Hampshire.

Haley criticized the size of the federal budget and said some of the federal government’s duties can be shifted to the states. "Do you know right now over 70% of federal employees are still working from home three years after COVID?" she said.

Haley repeated the statistic Jan. 4 during a CNN...