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• White House Instructs Agencies to Begin Process of Returning Some Employees to Their Offices - April 21, 2020
• Operations will remain abnormal for the coming months and will vary widely across the country.
  
  
  Eric Katz, Government Executive
  
  
  Federal agencies should begin considering ways to bring employees back to their offices, according to new Trump administration guidance, though the White House left much of the decision making to individual leaders based on local conditions.
  
  
  The new guidance, released jointly by the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget, seeks to align federal agencies with guidance the White House unveiled last week for states to use when assessing how and when to reopen businesses and other entities in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Agencies will therefore follow state mandates and maintain significant discretion on when to take a variety of steps. Much of the memorandum spelled out policies that agencies could or may take, without prescribing specific timelines or actions.
  
  
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