DEI May Be Over, but Discrimination Isn't: Support & Tips for Affected Workers

It was not an executive order. It was a memoradum

Lol lol against the law? Pro se just filed my 9th and the judges don’t care and the VA workers to silence us

It is going to cause a massive ammount of unnecessary waste. This is beyond asinine.

To make allotments only for disabled people to be able to work from home, is discrimination to all healthy people.
But that requires actual forethought.

The American taxpayer wants them to go back to the office.

The EO says “remote work” which is a separate status from situational or regular telework agreements.

Even if there is a bargaining agreement negotiated by the Union?

Elon Musk FIRED many of his workers and all his workers do not remote work. This is not business as usual. You will see people working in basements and buildings with molds. Workers stuffed in one office the size of a small closet. You will see workers working at newly leased buildings that are in the in middle of nowhere. They will make it hard for you and have you hate your job so you will quit. Get it through all your thick heads, Doncon and Mr. Nazi mean business. Get your life together now if you want to keep your job and be ready to come back by June 2025 if you are remote and in 30 days if you are teleworking. There, I said it.

Telework has been around for a couple of decades. The Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 encouraged the use of telework as a recruiting tool to attract workers to the government. Government employees in fields that were able to telework have been doing so for many years long before covid.

I acknowledge that during covid, telework was further expanded.

It's just unfortunate that the Trump admin is trying to unwind telework as if it didn't exist prior to covid.

I think some forget how these were the people that continued to work during C-Vid (when Telework first became full time) yet many others stayed home and got paid to do nothing. Most the news reporting incorrect numbers relating to telework/remote work. The actual metrics showed positive productivity by most Teleworkers but now they are considered a disgrace to the country. Curious how many of the people that want teleworkers back in office are the ones that got paid to stay home and do nothing? If reason to help the economy by spending on gas and food for lunch will it actually help/boost the economy? Lol!

Trump wants us to return back to our gov’t offices while he’s out golfing again. Nice.

You’re in the imperial army now Feds! Follow orders!

When u r simply reading your material, u lose your credibility😂

Article II, Section 1, The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. NOT congress, NOT the Judicial Branch, NOT administrative agencies and NOT unions! The Fasci-Marxist LEFT has sodomized the COTUS since the turn of the 20th Century, but we (and the SCOTUS majority for decades to come due to Trump's re-election) have returned to a textualist/originalist Constitutional Republic! An "AMENDMENT" is required to add restrictions not enumerated in the COTUS... NOT legislation.

Looking spiffy, Morris! My interpretation is slightly different: It's the "Agency Head" who makes the call, and the Master Labor Agreement will continue to delineate telework flexibilities. I'm not confident anything will actually happen until April 20th, because that's end of DOGE review period. Return to work is inefficient and burdensome; it's about protecting the financial interests of leaseholders and area restaurants, not improving efficiency.

Trumpeter re "creative destruction": In the age of automobiles, we do not continue riding horse and buggies, just to keep the buggy manufacturers in business; so too here, we don't go back to brick and mortar buildings after technological advancements like Zoom have made it more efficient and cost effective to work remotely. Exception: The Federal government, which is always striving to break things by creating greater inefficiencies and burdens than less!

Doesn't this go against the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010???

Wow! They have been doing exactly that since Obama

I wonder how this plays out for the laws passed recently that was to create more remote jobs for military spouses due to moving frequently. I think that was a good move to help spouses financially and career wise establish work history. Are they going to roll that back for them along with everyone else? That only seems fair

Dude, the President is the Chief Executive, which means he’s your boss!!! To all the swamp rats, Trump is your boss, get over it. Get back to work

To me this is so absurd, every other government union they can walk right off, all of the at once- like teachers etc. Its so wrong what Reagan did in the 80s, and the FSLMRS bs in the 70s did not help us. I think federal workers would have much better working conditions and none of this crap would be happening otherwise. The presidents have overstepped their power....

Speaking as a federal employee who's teleworked long before Covid, I resent the phrase "getting federal employees back to work." If my agency wasn't telework ready during Covid, there wouldn't have been any work done for nearly two years, which would have created an enormous backlog of work and cost to the government. This notion that people aren't working unless they report to a physical office is ludicrous.

The sole reason companies want people to return to the office is because billionaires are losing their fortunes due to empty and decaying corporate real estate / office buildings. Just “passively protest” by not spending any money downtown. Bring your lunch, buy your gas near home, shop locally or virtually etc.

Quite honestly, I only feel bad for the people who have medical conditions that make working in an office difficult or embarrassing. For example, some people have bowel issues. Especially older women who've had a hysterectomy. Many of them have a side-effect called rectocele that can cause involuntary leakage of gas and stools. Working from home is much more beneficial for everybody involved. People with seizure disorders are another example. So I am hoping that LEGITIMATE, MEDICAL exemptions can be granted. Everybody else needs to get off the couch and go back to work like everybody else. The tax payers went back to the office three years ago.

Telework will still happen. It's called plugging your laptop into a different wall across town, getting right back on MS Teams. LOL. Do I get a private jet to fly to my "in person" meetings around the country every day? Sound exciting!

There is actually a new (wednesday?) OPM memo (or is it a nastygram?) with equally as vague language in it . . . .

I know a widower with a young child whose spouse died during the pandemic. His prior leadership at the highest levels found that a compelling interest to keep the experienced employee, but now faces potentially the end of remote work. And widowhood is not a protected class or disability from what I recall.

I have watched several videos now and no one ever mentions the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. Read the purpose of the Act. How can the executive order countermand statute? Because he is just going to get away with it unless someone sues?

With Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the like, what is the point of going back to the office, other than facilitating micromanagement?

Yeah, I plan on pushing for 100% telework as per my disability!

From reading the comments, most agree there is not enough office space to have everyone return to the office. It makes me think new hires will be fired. Then, it sounds like the beginning of a Reduction In Force to trim the government. I see a bumpy ride ahead and this is the time to polish your resume!😮

Ordered back into the Office, refuse and you’ll be UNEMPLOYED. It’s that simple especially when Government is looking to make cuts. The Executive Order was drafted by Attorneys, you’ll be taking a big chance to disobey the order.

As a Federal employee you’re required to Follow Orders …

This shows the ignorance of not only this administration but a lot of the commenters. Remote work and telework are different. I spent 15 years in corporate America and I’ve been a federal employee for five years. I go into the office three days a week and I telework two days a week I get more work done on the telework days then I do when I go into the office. Why because I don’t have a 2 hour commute each way. The mayor of DC refuses to stop price gouging on parking 🅿️ so we commute to work usubg an unreliable and often delayed transit system. Many workers pay to park at the metro station and the prices are high and there are multiple car thefts. I am able to completely logon from home and complete a multitude of tasks. Speak out of knowledge and awareness not stupidity.

So many different reasons for RA now. For example, im a frequent telworker, but now the gov has dowsized offices to hoteling deaks only for teleworkers. If it's one day a week, fine if it's 5 days a week I need a sit stand desk. How am I going to get a sit stand desk if i dont have an assigned desk.

A friend said their message read return to 'duty station'. His duty station is in another State.

Ive been a Fed employee for 25 years. Ive been TWing 3-4 days a week since 2009. I dont understand the reasoning behind 'return to work.' DOGE is bragging about saving $420m last week by breaking govt leases on buildings, yet the President wants to fill up empty buildings? Why not break those leases?

There is not a single piece of data that shows any federal agency or administration's performance decreased because of telework.

Many TW so they dont have to spend 10+ hours a week in traffic, wasting time and gas money. This order doesn't just putbodies back in cubicles, it takes money out of our pockets and time away from our families.

I will repeat myself: I just do not understand. What is the difference between me being on Teams and Zoom calls from my home office vs a tiny cubicle?

What savings does this offer the tax payer? Will efficiency from returning to the office be measured? What benefit is expected? Many of us built our lives around TW after the 2010 Telework Act...now it feels as if we are being punished for creating a work/life balance.

You totally overlooked union federal employees and their collective bargaining agreements

Get real, these people talking about they are more productive at home may be telling the truth. But what they don’t speak about is the blatant abuse that is taking place as well and they know it!!! Emails not being responded to for hours. The employee is out shopping or sleep in bed. Out at a hair dresser appointment or somewhere out of town and the wi-fi connection is bad. These are just some of the abuses that are taking place by many federal employees that is never spoken about.

Well, I know someone whose department’s physical office is under renovation..which is not scheduled to be completed til 2027. The temporary bldg they are to report to can only accommodate 150 people. They have 350 in their department. Also which I don’t think will be taken into account, it is 45mins further away from their original office building. Today is “D” day. This memorandum or order is not written well. Department Heads it appears should really judge the feasibility of this action with a “fine tooth comb”

Telework and remote work are 2 different things.

It is not an Executive Order, it is a Memorandum. The subject is Remote Work, but that it different than Telework.

Cutting that budget... buy giving away tons of money and getting nothing back of labor for it!

The orange tvrd is playing... 3D level chess.... I'm telling you...

My team has worked on site the entire time, while many others left the office and burdened us with their work. They didn't care about us when they left. They didn't care each time their tasks got dropped in our laps. Why should I care about them now? If this does not apply to you then you won't be offended.

Executive orders supersede laws? I am confused. (Law: Telework Enhancement Act of 2010)

I think people like Elon and others from industry need to spend time to learn more about how the federal gov't works and the history and regulations behind policies they are trying to change, e.g., telework, separation from gov't, BEFORE trying to change them. They may even find that there are ways to achieve their goal by using the well thought out and detailed processes already in place.

My agency monitors any telework. And there best be production. I do not understand WHERE these rogue employees are. No production should equal discipline.

It is such an obvious fact that the covid hangover is DONE. Get lazy fed loafers back to "work," such as it is.

Get up Get dressed and go to work

Where in hell are these unions in stopping this shit? The unions are useless if they don’t get off their asses. Strongly worded responses aren’t going to work. Right now I just see caving in and bragging about their new membership numbers. They’re about to lose many members if they just acquiesce.

lies