Directives to end WFH arrangements are leaving some federal employees confused and scrambling to rework their lives. Why it matters: The clock has started. Following President Trump's orders, the Office of Personal Management (OPM) gave federal workers roughly a month's heads-up to be back in the office full-time.

President Trump has signed an executive action ordering federal agencies to bring their workers back to the office full time. Roughly 1.1 million federal employees are telework-eligible.

President Donald Trump signed an order to temporarily freeze hiring for federal agencies and a mandate for federal employees to return to their offices. It was one of several executive orders signed on his inauguration day.

President Donald Trump is requiring most federal employees to return to work in person full time, a move that is likely to spark backlash and legal challenges from unions.

President Trump ordered an end to telework arrangements for federal workers on his first day in office Monday as part of a blizzard of executive orders. Ending remote work is a priority for DC Mayor Muriel Bowser as well—she views the pandemic-era boom in work-from-home arrangements as devastating to DC’s downtown core.

President Donald Trump signed and executive order requiring federal workers back in the office 5 days a week. How many work from home in Alabama?

Commerce’s update is one of what will likely be many return-to-office pushes from agencies, following a directive to return feds to the office full-time.

In addition to the telework order, Trump signed an order that places a hiring freeze on federal agencies including the Internal Revenue Service. GBH News received information from a Massachusetts-based applicant about a job notice that said “the IRS has temporarily paused all external hiring activity.”