No More WFH: Feds Ordered Back to Office Cubicles Immediately
Published Date: 1/28/2025
Presidential Document
Summary
Starting soon, all federal government employees must return to working full-time in person at their usual offices. Department leaders can allow exceptions if needed, but remote work is officially ending. This change affects everyone in executive branch agencies and aims to bring back the buzz of office life without delay.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Federal Employees: Return to Office
If you work for an executive-branch department or agency, you must end remote work and return to your usual duty station to work full-time, effective "as soon as practicable" under the January 20, 2025 memorandum. The memorandum applies to heads of all executive departments and agencies and directs termination of remote work arrangements on a full-time in-person basis.
Agency Heads May Grant Exemptions
Department and agency heads may grant exemptions to the return-to-office requirement if they deem them necessary, per the January 20, 2025 memorandum. These exemptions are discretionary and must be made by the relevant department or agency head.
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