Just hours after he was sworn into office, President Donald Trump ordered all federal employees back to the office.
Trump’s executive order directs agency and department heads to “terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis.”
It says the move should take place “as soon as practicable” and that department and agency heads “shall make exemptions they deem necessary.”
The decision to make this one of his Day 1 actions makes it clear the return-to-office push is a priority for Trump.
What is less clear is exactly how this push will play out with a federal workforce that has resisted being forced back to the office.
The nation’s largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 D.C. and federal workers, pushed back against the executive order in a statement Monday night, calling the move a “backward action” that reverses more than a decade of precedent of hybrid work.
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