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‘Nobody is liking that’: Federal employees balk at Trump’s order to return to the office
The Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 01/22/2025 12:52:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

President Trump rankled federal workers by ordering them to stop teleworking and get back to the office.

Around Washington this week, government employees balked at Mr. Trump trying to force them back to the daily grind of sitting in traffic and the other workday rituals that go with showing up in person at federal office buildings.

“Nobody is liking that,” said Kyra Toland, a budget analyst with the Department of Labor who has worked in the federal government for over three decades.

Ms. Toland said federal employees — particularly those in data-driven jobs like hers — have a proven track record of getting things done remotely.

“We showed that we could do it,” she said.

Mr. Trump trained his focus on the federal workforce shortly after taking the oath of office on Monday. 

He signed executive orders that reclassified hundreds of thousands of federal workers as at-will employees, initiated a hiring freeze and ended equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies.

He also signed a “Return to In-Person Work” order that said that all government and departments in the executive branch “shall, as soon as practicable, 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, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.”

The announcement was a long time in the making.

Mr. Trump, throughout the 2024 campaign, vowed to slice the size and scope of the federal government and ax the “rogue bureaucrats” who he claimed stood in his way during his first four years in office.

The American Federal of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union representing 800,000 government, criticized the move.

“To justify this backward action, lawmakers and members of President Trump’s transition team have spent...

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1 posted on 01/22/2025 12:52:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you work permanently remote, lose the extra locality pay.


2 posted on 01/22/2025 12:54:31 PM PST by vaskypilot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Awww. Too bad!


3 posted on 01/22/2025 12:54:39 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you work permanently remote, lose the extra locality pay.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 12:54:40 PM PST by vaskypilot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, they should just quit in protest. That’ll show him.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 12:54:51 PM PST by Jemian (“From this moment on, America’s decline is over.”)
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To: Jemian

With 30 years in just retire.


6 posted on 01/22/2025 12:55:48 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s this ‘Nobody’ stuff. I like it.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 12:56:00 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s one way to get rid of dead weight!! LOL


8 posted on 01/22/2025 12:56:42 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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"...have a proven track record of getting things done remotely."

That's not the point. There are TOO MANY GOVT EMPLOYEES. If you don't like it, leave. The taxpayers will thank you.
9 posted on 01/22/2025 12:56:55 PM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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80+% of them need to be fired anyway to get the federal gov't down to its constitutional limits.

NUKE THE 80%+, $3+ TRILLION UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOV'T!!!!

10 posted on 01/22/2025 12:57:38 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

too bad that the tax-paid worker is snivelling about working at home in their fuzzy slippers!


11 posted on 01/22/2025 12:57:41 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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You don’t have to like it, You only have to do it.


12 posted on 01/22/2025 12:57:54 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s them again, Boo Boo. You don’t have to look. Just imagine all the blonde and blue-eyed federal employees who are so upset about having to go back to the office to pick up their six-figure paychecks.


13 posted on 01/22/2025 12:59:01 PM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Sweet Liberty Valens! Thank God for Guns! --Denny Crane)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

China loves it when government workers use their home computers for work much happy.


14 posted on 01/22/2025 12:59:42 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should not show up for work if they can’t work in the office, or else give justification why not, such as medical, etc.


15 posted on 01/22/2025 12:59:57 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, that will make it easier to know who to cut.


16 posted on 01/22/2025 1:00:01 PM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

right. shut up, get your fanny into the office, do your job there, or get out, now.


17 posted on 01/22/2025 1:00:26 PM PST by dadfly
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well tough cookies, either comply or GET THE FUDGE OUT


18 posted on 01/22/2025 1:00:54 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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19 posted on 01/22/2025 1:01:03 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There are plenty of work from home jobs available. In the private sector Twinkie.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 1:01:41 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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