What is your federal agency telling you re: RTO? (No other rants/comments!)

[Anonymous]

Just posting this here for folks that aren't familiar: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/labor-relations/collective-bargaining-agreements/

Also to interpret your SF-50: https://dw.opm.gov/datastandards/referenceData/1578/current?index=S&sort=DESC_FROM_DATE&d-1318642-s=3&dir=asc&d-1318642-o=1
https://help.usajobs.gov/working-in-government/service/sf-50

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank God for unions.

+1000

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Federal Reserve full return to office starting Monday which they haven’t fully announced yet. Great leadership. EO’s don’t even apply to us. People are going to be jumping ship fast.


You serious?

spouse is employed at the board and has been remote for 10 years. We live over 90 miles from DC. They have not gotten word yet on what to do next week.Maybe they could use a desk as a reserve bank that is closer to us, but they would just be doing exactly what they do at home, at someone else's workplace (which is mostly talk loudly on zoom).

Your situation is not unique. This is many people at many agencies.

I’ve been in the office doing almost exclusively virtual meetings for years. That’s what most of us do in the office.

Most of the people in our office are in different states, so every meeting we do is virtual. We all sit at our desks looking at computers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Department of Commerce return to office. No date set. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Information%20Memo%20-%20Return%20to%20In-Person%20Work_0.pdf

Exemptions: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Office of Inspector General, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps

It says the memo does not supersede existing CBA!

So BU are off the hook? This is just going to make supervisors super resentful.

That’s the point. Between this and Schedule F, all managers and policy makers get ejected to make room for a wave of embedded, deep-state MAGA loyalists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Department of Commerce return to office. No date set. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Information%20Memo%20-%20Return%20to%20In-Person%20Work_0.pdf

Exemptions: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Office of Inspector General, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps

It says the memo does not supersede existing CBA!

So BU are off the hook? This is just going to make supervisors super resentful.

That’s the point. Between this and Schedule F, all managers and policy makers get ejected to make room for a wave of embedded, deep-state MAGA loyalists.

lol where are all the MAGA loyalists who want mid-management jobs? Nowhere.

[Anonymous]

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Federal Reserve full return to office starting Monday which they haven’t fully announced yet. Great leadership. EO’s don’t even apply to us. People are going to be jumping ship fast.


You serious?

spouse is employed at the board and has been remote for 10 years. We live over 90 miles from DC. They have not gotten word yet on what to do next week.Maybe they could use a desk as a reserve bank that is closer to us, but they would just be doing exactly what they do at home, at someone else's workplace (which is mostly talk loudly on zoom).

Your situation is not unique. This is many people at many agencies.

I’ve been in the office doing almost exclusively virtual meetings for years. That’s what most of us do in the office.

Most of the people in our office are in different states, so every meeting we do is virtual. We all sit at our desks looking at computers.

us too!

[Anonymous]

Same. It was like this pre-covid too. Maybe we should go back to using typewriters too. In the spirit of efficiency.

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Anonymous wrote:Department of Commerce return to office. No date set. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Information%20Memo%20-%20Return%20to%20In-Person%20Work_0.pdf

Exemptions: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Office of Inspector General, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps

It says the memo does not supersede existing CBA!

So BU are off the hook? This is just going to make supervisors super resentful.

That’s the point. Between this and Schedule F, all managers and policy makers get ejected to make room for a wave of embedded, deep-state MAGA loyalists.

lol where are all the MAGA loyalists who want mid-management jobs? Nowhere.

And I hope they all have law degrees because my agency is all lawyers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Department of Commerce return to office. No date set. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Information%20Memo%20-%20Return%20to%20In-Person%20Work_0.pdf

Exemptions: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Office of Inspector General, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps

It says the memo does not supersede existing CBA!

So BU are off the hook? This is just going to make supervisors super resentful.

That’s the point. Between this and Schedule F, all managers and policy makers get ejected to make room for a wave of embedded, deep-state MAGA loyalists.

lol where are all the MAGA loyalists who want mid-management jobs? Nowhere.

There aren’t enough literate MAGAs to fill those jobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Federal Reserve full return to office starting Monday which they haven’t fully announced yet. Great leadership. EO’s don’t even apply to us. People are going to be jumping ship fast.

You serious?

Yes. Didn’t sound like it just my division. Even OPM is giving their staff until March. Just unreal.

What division are you?

BDM

So as of end of day Friday there’s no info and then people fire up their computers Monday and are told “get to your office now”? I’m a big fan of RTO but this scenario sounds crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about SK 16? Super high salaries and telework?

Most 16s at the SEC are not supervisors and are in BU. So they will still telework.

I do think that the SEC is being somewhat reasonable by giving that last group until March to RTO.

[Anonymous]

HHS guidance is out. Supervisors back full time, with only situational telework, starting Feb 24. Bargaining until back April 28. People hired under actual remote job announcements are exempt for now.

[Anonymous]

commerce immediately cancelled telework for all employees except PTO, OIG, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and employees with a CBA.

[Anonymous]

cfpb is sticking with our existing TW arrangements

[Anonymous]

The HHS document says bargaining unit employees with WFAs (remote and telework agreements) do not have to RTO until labor obligations have been met. Not sure exactly what this means.