Federal employees describe both challenges and benefits presented by President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate. ... What federal workers are saying about Trump's RTO order.

Along with the RTO mandate, Trump also instituted a hiring freeze on federal workers, and OPM issued a separate memo asking federal agencies to compile lists of workers they could easily fire.

RTO, or "return to office," refers to the federal government's policy requiring employees to work on-site rather than remotely. For many, that means government workers will head back to an office ...

A federal employee union head who's critical of the RTO mandate for government workers says he thinks Elon Musk is ignorant of civil servants' work.

They predicted the possibility of a "brain drain of senior, knowledgeable employees." January 24, 2025: This story was updated to remove the name of one of the federal workers at the worker's request.

However Trump’s RTO mandate is implemented, and whatever its ramifications on federal workers, under the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, federal agencies will still need to maintain a business ...

Former government employees are finding that perhaps the only thing harder than getting laid off from the federal government ...

Federal workers split over return-to-office mandate. Some are job hunting. The Post-Ipsos poll finds that 50 percent of federal workers oppose the Trump administration’s RTO mandate, while 49 ...

A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens ...

Federal workers are whining about the "DOGE 15" - the added weight they've packed on since being dragged back to the office and worrying about their own productivity and looming layoffs.