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Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, 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,
Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,
Musk and his former DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy wrote late last year in The Wall Street Journal President's new order forces government employees back to their desks, as advisers predict mass exodus from federal workforce. The strategy? Simple: Make them show up, watch them quit. Draining the swamp one empty desk at a time."
Conservative internet personality Mario Nawfal, in a post to X, formerly Twitter If federal employees don't want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn't pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,
This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law,
The politics play well with the Maga crowd, because work-from-home workers tend to be higher educated,
said Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University who studies labour and management issues I think there’s going to be a lot of problems with government services falling apart,
Restricting the use of hybrid work arrangements will make it harder for federal agencies to compete for top talent,