Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, The IRS Has Reduced Its Overall Space Footprint; However, a Significant Amount of Unneeded Office Space Still Remains (2024-100-027) (June 4, 2024):

Since FY 2018, the IRS has reduced its overall space footprint by approximately 2 million rentable square feet, from 24.3 million to 22.3 million, which represents a reduction of approximately 8 percent. However, additional efforts to address long-term space planning are needed to increase efficient space allocation and realization of its associated cost savings. Specifically, the IRS lacks a long-term space reduction plan that clearly specifies the space reductions it expects to achieve annually beyond FY 2026, and that sufficiently decreases its unneeded office space by maximizing the space savings associated with current practices in remote work, telework, and workstation sharing/hoteling.

In FY 2023, more than one-half of IRS buildings had a workstation occupancy rate of 50 percent or less. In addition, the IRS has not implemented workstation sharing/hoteling for approximately 61 percent of its employees on frequent telework.

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