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the federal worksite at all.
6 Federal office buildings sit mostly empty, particularly Washington, 
D.C.-area agency headquarters offices, devastating the local economy and serving as a national 
embarrassment.
7 Virtually unrestricted telework has led to poorer government services and made 
it more difficult to supervise and train government workers.
8
Fairness requires that federal office employees show up to the worksite each day like most
other American workers. In addition, during the Biden Administration, federal unions attempted
to abuse the collective-bargaining process to guarantee full-time telework into the indefinite future 
and forestall any requirement to return to the office.9
The President’s PM directs agency heads to “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” “as soon as practicable.” It allows agency heads to “make exemptions 
they deem necessary” and directs that the directive “be implemented consistent with applicable 
law.”
The PM reflects a simple reality. 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.10 Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the 
worksite has not succeeded.11
III. Steps for Agencies to Return to Workers to the Office
In light of the PM, agencies should take the following steps to return workers to the 
office. 
No later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday, January 24, 2025:
1. 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 [/quote]

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