Full timely work for Federal US employees is over. This Monday began the return to the offices by disposition of the Government of Donald Trump.
Federal employees from all over the United States, many of whom have worked from home from the Covid-19 pandemic, returned to the offices of the agencies on Monday under the mandate of President Donald Trump.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency in search of dispensions in government agencies, made a warning on Monday to workers on their X platform.
“From this week, those who do not return to the office will be suspended,” Musk wrote.
Lee Zeldin, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Monday, previously Twitter, that “remote work full -time, during the era of the COVID, is over.”
In a video he published, Zeldin said the average assistance at the EPA headquarters on Monday and Friday last year was less than 9 % of employees.
“Our spacious and beautiful headquarters of the EPA covers two apples in DC through five buildings,” said Zeldin. “But our corridors have been too empty, the desks, empty, and the cubicles, full of unoccupied chairs.”
But apparently some federal agencies are not prepared for all workers to return to the office.
In an email sent on Friday to federal aid employees for students of the Department of Education and obtained by The Associated PressAgency officials indicated that some regional offices in Boston, Chicago, New York and San Francisco were not ready for workers to return. The message also indicates that employees living more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) of regional offices in some large cities would not be obliged to return to the office on Monday.
“We should treat it as the first day of class: plan a little time in your calendar to guide you, find your way and find out how to connect in the conference rooms, etc.,” said email. “There will certainly be some that will be lost or will be late for class or have to run to find a seat due to a setback.”
The email also indicated that, although some workers would begin to report to the offices on Monday, others would begin to relocate back to the offices in phases until April and later.
Mike Galletly, president of the US Federation of Employees of the Local Government 4016, said that the information technology workers represented in the Department of Agriculture have had problems fulfilling the mandate back to the office.
“For the members of my unit, it has represented a lot of work to find hardware for people, monitors, connection stations,” Galletly said. “You have an office that until this month normally housed four people. Now they have to house eight people. ”
The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered its remote employees to return to the offices, even if they were hired for a remote role.
The federal workers of the department received the formal notice on Monday in an email that was sent to employees who work more than 80 kilometers from a regional office. He says they must report to an office before April 28.
The federal government employed more than 3 million people until November last year. That represented almost 1.9 % of the entire civil workforce of the United States, according to the PEW Research Center.