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Federal agencies given 30 days to implement Trump return-to-office mandate

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    • 88:88
      I can say from experience that it is very difficult for a new employee to learn the ropes when most of his or her interactions are with faces on computer screens, rather than in-person conversations with veterans and mentors,
      The Gazette
      he added
    • 88:88
      The chair's priorities are going to be the ones that suffer. Those are the ones that take the most work, because you are starting from the beginning,
      The Gazette
      he said
    • 88:88
      We are working hard to determine how we can best address those difficulties while still achieving full compliance with the PM (Presidential Memorandum). Finally, we are developing a procedure by which the agency will consider requests for exemptions from the PM in exceptional circumstances,
      The Gazette
      he said
    • 88:88
      Great thing [federal employees] have an example in the president of the United States who works all day. If you don’t believe me, look at the Marine outside the Oval Office there all night because he is working throughout the night,
      The Independent
      Jones said
    • 88:88
      It’s like they want special treatment for everything. And their salary is way better than some of the other private sector jobs,
      The Independent
      he said
    • 88:88
      The directive mandates that all executive branch departments and agencies end remote work arrangements and require employees to return to their respective duty stations. However, by definition, [fully remote workers’] official worksite is their home office location. So they do not have offices to return to,
      CNN
      Cross said
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      [It ... It] would mean honoring any hybrid work arrangements detailed in our ratified contracts. We’ll obviously be watching to see how the order is implemented and will respond accordingly if needed,
      CNN
      said spokesman Tim Kauffman
    • 88:88
      Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,
      CNN
      they wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
    • 88:88
      As I read it now, the [memorandum] applies to federal offices across the entire country, not just in Washington, DC. But it specifies ‘remote work’ and not ‘telework.’ I wonder if it was intended to apply to both work arrangements or just remote work,
      CNN
      Cross said
    • 88:88
      The only way to get employees back to the office is to adopt a centralized policy requiring return-to-work for all agencies across the federal government,
      CNN
      the guidance states
    • 88:88
      This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.”
      CNN
      Trump’s directive ended with this line
    • 88:88
      It is reasonable to expect that a significant share of federal workers whose jobs can be done remotely will continue to work at least a few days a week outside of an official federal site [or] office over the next four years,
      CNN
      said government workplace expert Mika Cross, who has implemented several federal government-wide human capital policy and workplace initiatives
    • 88:88
      If people don’t come back to work, come back into the office, they’re going to be dismissed,
      CNN
      Trump said
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      The agency head or acting agency head should revise their agency’s telework policy issued under 5 U.S.C. § 6502(a)(1)(A) to state that eligible employees must work full time at their respective duty stations unless excused due to a disability, qualifying medical condition, or other compelling reason certified by the agency head and the employee’s supervisor.”
      CNN
      It goes
    • 88:88
      I am anxious to say the least about what will happen to this work and the people who depend on it if I, and others, lose their jobs,
      CNN
      said the USDA worker, who is married with four young children
    • 88:88
      The federal government already hires and promotes exclusively on the basis of merit,
      CNN
      AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement Wednesday
    • 88:88
      After nearly 20 years of federal service, I have never felt this kind of anxiety about my job,
      CNN
      the lawyer, who lives in the Southwest with a spouse and two young children, said
    • 88:88
      I won’t succumb to the chilling effect,
      CNN
      said the Washington, DC, metro area resident, who previously worked in the private sector
    • 88:88
      Ultimately, these attacks on DEIA are just a smokescreen for firing civil servants, undermining the apolitical civil service, and turning the federal government into an army of yes-men loyal only to the president, not the Constitution,
      CNN
      he continued