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MEMORANDUM
TO: Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies
FROM: Charles Ezell, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management 
DATE: January 22, 2025
RE: Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following guidance to 
agencies regarding President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum (PM), Return to In-Person Work. 
I. Authority
OPM is issuing this guidance under the Telework Flexibility Act of 2010, which requires
agencies to consult with OPM in developing telework policies1
and tasks OPM with providing
policy and policy guidance,
2
as well assisting agencies with establishing teleworking goals.
3 This 
guidance also implements OPM Director’s statutory duties to “secur[e] accuracy, uniformity, and 
justice in the functions of the Office” and “execut[e], administer[], and enforc[e] . . .the civil 
service rules and regulations of the President and the Office and the laws governing the civil 
service.”4
II. Background
President Trump was elected with the mandate to increase the efficiency and accountability 
of the federal workforce. A glaring roadblock is that most federal offices presently are virtually 
abandoned. The vast majority of federal office workers have not returned to in-person work, even 
though the COVID-19 pandemic ended years ago.5 Many federal office workers never show up to 
1
5 U.S.C. § 6504(a).
2
Id. § 6504(b)(1).
3
Id. § 6504(b)(2). This guidance supersedes entirely and cancels OPM’s August 7, 2024 
Memorandum entitled “Guiding Factors for Designing Remote Work Policies and Programs,” the OPM 
Memorandum to Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies dated February 9, 2001, and any 
conflicting sections of OPM’s 2021 Guide to Telework and Remote Work in the Federal Government.
4
5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5).
5 Report of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Majority Staff, The 
Lights Are On, But Everyone Is at Home: Why the New Administration Will Enter Largely Vacant 
Federal Offices (Jan. 15, 2025), https://oversight.house.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2025/01/011525_Telework-Staff-Report_FINAL.pdf[/quote]

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