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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If you work permanently remote, lose the extra locality pay.
Awww. Too bad!
If you work permanently remote, lose the extra locality pay.
Well, they should just quit in protest. That’ll show him.
With 30 years in just retire.
What’s this ‘Nobody’ stuff. I like it.
That’s one way to get rid of dead weight!! LOL
NUKE THE 80%+, $3+ TRILLION UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOV'T!!!!
too bad that the tax-paid worker is snivelling about working at home in their fuzzy slippers!
You don’t have to like it, You only have to do it.
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.
China loves it when government workers use their home computers for work much happy.
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.
Well, that will make it easier to know who to cut.
right. shut up, get your fanny into the office, do your job there, or get out, now.
Well tough cookies, either comply or GET THE FUDGE OUT
There are plenty of work from home jobs available. In the private sector Twinkie.
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