Federal employees who have worked completely or partially remotely for almost five years come to terms with the fact that they now have to return to the office.
And if they do not adhere to the executive Order of President Donald Trump and the policy that his agencies implement in response, experts warn that thousands of the man's wrath can be confronted with the slogan: “You have been fired.”
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IOWA) said that employees have 'abused' the telephoto work and it is one of the 'largest waste areas' in the federal government, according to a clip obtained by DailyMail.com.
She specifically detailed how most employees of the Veterans Administration (VA) do not get to the office every day and complained that there is an ever-increasing backlog of claims for the disabled and hotline calls that remain unanswered for days.
“We pay federal employees for a glorified vacation because they don't work from home,” said Ernest during an upcoming podcast episode of the position with Gabe Groisman.
“A VA employee who was in charge of some of these hotlines – he was actually on a zoom call from his bathtub,” said Ernst, chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee. “You don't really work if you take a long, hot weeks in a hot tub.”
This example of March 2023 is often used by Republicans to show why returning to the office is needed. The VA employee posted a story on Instagram that showed him in a bathtub with the caption: “My office for the next Hr.”
Even Democrats, many of whom were massive proponents from work-of-home policy to far into the second year of the Pandemie, the new era of work schemes get sick and warn employees who have been played for years that their vacation is now over.
“We pay federal employees for a glorified vacation because they don't work from home,” says Senator Joni Ernest during an upcoming podcast episode of the position with Gabe Groisman
Former Ministry of Defense Staff for David Dorey policy told DailyMail.com: “I think even the Biden administration was a bit tired of what was going on.”
“You saw some movement back to work, at least a little bit, and then a lot of resistance, but I think the current president will not tolerate that,” he added.
Dorey, who is now head of labor and work for LIFF, Walsh and Simmons but worked in the executive branch of the government through the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemie, said Trump that Trump is made clear to work , so it is how it is how it is how it is, and if you don't, there will be consequences, including termination. '
Last week, the president issued an order on the day one of his second term in which he ordered his agencies to prepare and enforce a return-to-office plan that on Friday, January 24 at 17 : 00 hours had to be communicated to their employees.
They have 30 days to present their plans and to implement the change.
DHS sent his employees a memo last week and ordered them to return to the office immediately.
They gave exceptions for people with a 'physical inability' to come to the office or work and said it also depends on whether there is enough 'enough office space' to house for the workforce.
Washington, DC's Democratic mayor Muriel Bowser is happy with the executive order of Trump who requires his executive agencies to implement a return to the office plan in the coming month.
The capital of the nation has long had the victims of the federal workforce that performed their business at home and to redeem money that was previously injected into DC
“The entire city center of DC has essentially been eroded by federal employees who will not work for four years,” said Dorey.
“All services that those employees use when they go to work were simply not used and so companies went bankrupt,” he said. “The commercial space, I think, is a lot underhanded compared to where it should have been.”
Downtown Washington, DC has become a ghost city during the week after a tenth of the federal workforce remained completely far away after the COVID-19 Pandemie had ended. Shown: an almost empty DC metro car
Restaurants, shops and the metro system all suffered huge losses when thousands of employees never returned to full -time work at the office after they had been sent home for the first time in March 2020.
Bowser promised in a surprise for those who know her thoughts about Trump, to work together with the new Republican government 'to deliver for DC and the American public.'
In August 2024, the White House Office of Management and Budget published a report on the on -site versus Offsite Federal workforce. It turned out that one tenth of the federal employees works full-time off-site.
From May 2024 there were a total of more than 2.27 million federal employees in the 24 cabinet departments and independent agencies. This is good for all except for two percent of the employees of the federal government.
The report showed that 1.22 million activities are working full-time, while approximately 1.06 million is eligible for off-site work.
A total of 228,000 are full -time external employees.
It is expected that these thousands will flood back in the district in the coming weeks.
Federal employees who are now used to their new work schemes, find the New Order of Trump a difficult pill to swallow.
Many have adapted their lives to their remote control or teleworking situations in the last five years, and some have even moved from the commutable area to DC and should either have to go back or find another job.
Former Ministry of Defense Staff for David Dorey policy told DailyMail.com or Federal Employees do not go back to the office, 'there will be consequences, including to terminate'
Dorey says that there are probably administrative challenges at various agencies of employees or groups of employees who want to push the requirement to come to the office. He does not believe they will be successful.
“That administrative process lasts forever – it is terrible back -up and does not have the opportunity to adjust a little for the time being,” Dorey explained.
“So if someone says:” I'm not going to work personally tomorrow, “they can't just walk away through that process and then let someone tell the president or a desk to stop,” he added. “It couldn't go fast enough.”
And in the meantime, that employee would be obliged to meet the new policy, which would be to work full -time personally or to see what consequences are detailed by the government agencies.
In this case – likely termination.
