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- OPM Issues Guidance on President’s Return to In-Person Work Memo - January 23, 2025
By Ian Smith, FedSmith
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has published the anticipated guidance on President Trump’s memo directing federal employees to return to in-person work that he issued his first day in office.
OPM’s memo states:
"The PM [presidential memorandum issued by President Trump] reflects a simple reality. The only way to get employees back to the office is to adopt a centralized policy requiring return-to-work for all agencies across the federal government. Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the worksite has not succeeded."
Consequently, OPM directs federal agencies in its guidance memo to do the following by Friday, January 24, 2025, at 5 PM EST:To read the full article, click here.