Most Federal Agencies Using Less Than 25 Percent of Office Space: GAO

Most federal agencies are using less than 25 percent of their headquarters space, according to a new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
Testifying before members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on July 13, GAO Acting Director of Physical Infrastructure David Marroni said an assessment was conducted earlier this year to determine how much office space federal agencies really need.
“We assessed the extent to which 24 agencies utilized their headquarters buildings in January, February, and March of this year,” he said. “What we found was that all 24 of those headquarters buildings had extra space and that most agencies were using less than 25 percent of their headquarters capacity on average.”…}