President Trump has reversed the trend of remote work in the federal government, mandating a return to the office five days a week for most employees. The move is part of a broader effort to reshape the government, including a hiring freeze and the creation of a new advisory body tasked with streamlining operations. Some experts warn that the changes could lead to mass departures from the civil service, while others argue that the policy is necessary to ensure accountability and efficiency.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order mandating the return of federal workers to the office five days a week. This move, enacted in front of cheering supporters at Washington's The, reverses the trend of widespread remote work arrangements that emerged during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The order compels a significant number of white-collar government employees to abandon their remote work setups.
Some of Trump's allies have suggested that the return-to-work mandate is a strategic effort to weaken the civil service, making it easier for Trump to replace seasoned government workers with loyalists. In a concise statement published on the White House website, Trump directed all department and agency heads to 'as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.' This policy shift is accompanied by a hiring freeze and the establishment of an advisory body known as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This body, chaired by CEO Elon Musk, is tasked with assisting Trump in significantly reducing the federal government's size and potentially eliminating certain agencies altogether. Experts anticipate that the combined impact of these changes will be a surge in frustrated government employees leaving their jobs, a goal that the Trump administration appears to be actively pursuing. Musk himself recently predicted that revoking the 'COVID-era privilege' of telework would trigger 'a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.'Not all government workers will be directly affected by this policy. Approximately a quarter of the federal workforce is unionized, and many are covered by collective bargaining agreements that permit remote work or hybrid arrangements. However, Russell Vought, Trump's nominee for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has hinted at efforts to dismantle these agreements, characterizing them as 'a concerning phenomenon, and one that we are looking at very closely.' While Trump and other Republicans have asserted that remote work is widespread among federal employees, official government data indicates a more limited scope. Approximately 46% of federal workers, or 1.1 million individuals, are eligible for remote work, and around 228,000 of them work fully remotely, according to a report released by the White House Office of Management and Budget in August
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