Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia Takes on Government Retirement Process for DOGE

Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia Takes on Government Retirement Process for DOGE

Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of an effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy retirement process.                                      Image Credits:Arturo Holmes / Getty Images                 The system could seemingly use the help. Chuck Ezell, acting director of OPM, said in a video testimonial released today — and republished by Gebbia — that one week ago, the administration “challenged” the agency to “process a retiree, end to end, digitally, without printing anything to paper.” The deadline? Just one week. In the same video, an agency employee tells the cameraman that they’ve already managed to shrink the process to two days. Whether that process is scalable or sustainable or even repeatable remains to be seen, but …