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Trump return-to-office order for federal employees is working but percentage still under 50: Gallup
Just the News ^ | September 3, 2025 12:19pm | Joseph Weber

Posted on 09/03/2025 11:59:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Gallup survey found an increase of nearly 30 points in the second quarter of the year and is now at 46%.

The percentage of federal employees working in office in Washington, D.C., has significantly increased since President Trump's return-to-office order but still remains below 50%, according to a survey released Wednesday. 

After Trump returned to office in 2025, his administration ended remote work for most federal employees. As a result, the number of federal employees working in a flexible hybrid work model plummeted from 61% in late 2024 to 28% in the latest data from the second quarter of this year, the Gallup survey also found.

In addition, the survey found an increase of nearly 30 points in the second quarter of the year and is now at 46%.

Nationwide, the percentage of remote-capable U.S. employees working in a hybrid work model has decreased from 55% to 51% over the past two quarters, also according to the survey.

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1 posted on 09/03/2025 11:59:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jeez, why can’t these federal employees drag themselves to their minimal effort jobs 5-days a week?


2 posted on 09/03/2025 12:01:45 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MA)
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To: House Atreides

Cuz you can’t fire a preferred class without lawsuits.


3 posted on 09/03/2025 12:02:55 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

4 posted on 09/03/2025 12:07:08 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: House Atreides
The U.S. government spent 2+ years convincing Americans that their workplaces and fellow workers were as dangerous as toxic waste dumps.

I fully support any remote worker who refuses to go back to an office after that sh!t.

5 posted on 09/03/2025 12:11:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")
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To: Alberta's Child

That was a different administrations decision. Do you support Illegal Immigration since that was also a decision the previous administration pushed on us?


6 posted on 09/03/2025 12:24:03 PM PDT by Max_850
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To: House Atreides

WTH 46%? That is BS.


7 posted on 09/03/2025 12:27:14 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: Max_850
Nice try, but the COVID fiasco — and specifically the remote work mandate for federal employees — began under President Donald J. Trump.
8 posted on 09/03/2025 12:30:07 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Then fire them.


9 posted on 09/03/2025 12:38:46 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Alberta's Child

Honestly I didn’t recall. I worked through the whole time period and luckily the Semi Conductor fabs I worked out didn’t require the Covid Jab either. During several early months our company paid an extra 25% for those of us willing to keep going in. I gobbled up all the Fab time I could manage from the guys who wanted to stay home and be scared.


10 posted on 09/03/2025 12:47:35 PM PDT by Max_850
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FIRE THEM ALL NOW!


11 posted on 09/03/2025 12:53:36 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you make those lazy slobs go back to the office for 40 hours a week, many of them will quit.

They are simply too lazy and spoiled to get up in the morning and commute to an office building. I refuse to use the word “workers” do describe these miserable Deep State bureaucrats.

The more of them unemployed, the better.


12 posted on 09/03/2025 12:56:02 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: mass55th
Then fire them.

Methinks you do no understand how large corporations (or the government) work.

Trump saying someone is fired does not necessarily result in someone being fired.
13 posted on 09/03/2025 2:47:47 PM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Good God, what happened to firing people who don't shape up for work?

14 posted on 09/03/2025 2:56:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Always remember top never refer to most government employees as “workers”. It is an insult to those in society who do work hard daily.

Slackers, loafers, nitwits, disaffected-individuals, parasites and so forth all are more accurate and appropriate.


15 posted on 09/03/2025 3:10:00 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TexasGunLover
"Methinks you do no understand how large corporations (or the government) work."

I worked for New York State. If they wanted you gone, whether you were Civil Service or not, you were gone, even if you had 25 years on the job. They would put together some drummed-up charges to get rid of you, and then find an amenable Judge to find in their favor at your disciplinary hearing. And you'd be denied a new hearing on appeal. If they really wanted you, they'd take out 10 other people in order to get to the person they were actually targeting. I saw it with my own eyes during my 25 year stint.

16 posted on 09/03/2025 4:02:48 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any way to measure productivity? Number of reports produced? Number of .....?

Or productivity cannot be measured because they are not assigned to produce anything....just attend meetings and be counted?


17 posted on 09/03/2025 4:48:28 PM PDT by spintreebob
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