Federal agencies were given a deadline to implement a return-to-work mandate issued this week by President Donald Trump.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in a memo that federal agencies should require employees to meet in-office deadlines within 30 days of the policy announcement. The guidelines say the heads of those agencies have until 5 p.m. ET on Friday to revise their telework policies.
“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,” Charles Ezell, acting director of the OPM, said in a memo on Wednesday. “Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the worksite has not succeeded.”…