{"id":1991444,"date":"2023-08-04T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ramps-up-efforts-to-call-federal-employees-back-to-the-office\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:19:24","slug":"biden-ramps-up-efforts-to-call-federal-employees-back-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ramps-up-efforts-to-call-federal-employees-back-to-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden intensifies push for federal employees&#8217; return to office."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-ramps-up-efforts-to-call-federal-employees-back-to-the-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Biden Pushes for \u200bFederal Employees to Return to \u200bthe Office<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden is ramping up efforts to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">federal employees<\/a> back to the office after more than a\u2063 year of teleworking\u200d due \u2062to the pandemic. The once-bustling downtown Washington, D.C. has become a ghost town, with\u2062 federal\u2064 office \u2062buildings remaining mostly\u200d empty.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden and Republicans Clash Over \u2063Economy<\/h3>\n<p>In an email obtained by Axios on Friday, White House chief\u200c of \u2063staff Jeff Zients urged Cabinet members \u200bto \u200b&#8221;aggressively execute this \u2062shift&#8221; back to in-person work. The email stated, &#8220;As we look towards\u2064 the fall, and with the end of the COVID-19\u2062 public health emergency, your agencies will be implementing increases in the \u2063amount of in-person work for your team. This is a priority of the President \u2014 \u2064and I\u2062 am looking to each of you to aggressively execute \u200dthis \u200bshift in September and October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency status ended on \u200bMay 11,\u2063 and President Biden, along with\u2062 Washington leadership, is determined\u2064 to fill the vacant \u2063office space \u2062downtown. A recent \u2062report \u2064from the Government Accountability\u200d Office revealed \u2063that federal agencies occupied only 39-49% of their headquarters,\u2064 with utilization rates ranging from 10%\u200c to 50%.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has\u2062 been urging federal \u2062workers to \u2064return to their in-person office duties since March \u200c2022, with President Biden stating during the State of the\u2064 Union\u200c that &#8220;the \u2062vast majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-zoom-call-shows-us-federal-employees-conspiring-to-sabotage-the-trump-administration-video\/\" title=\"Leaked Zoom Call Shows US Federal Employees Conspiring to Sabotage the Trump Administration (VIDEO)\">federal workers<\/a> will once again work in person.&#8221; \u200bThe administration \u2062has reiterated this message multiple times, providing\u2064 new \u200cguidance \u200bfor \u200cemployees in April and promising a substantial increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leave-dolly-parton-alone-nbc-news-piece-sneering-at-dolly-partons-super-bowl-ad-praising-working-gets-slammed\/\" title=\"\u2018Leave Dolly Parton Alone\u2019: NBC News Piece Sneering At Dolly Parton\u2019s Super Bowl Ad Praising Working Gets Slammed.\">office workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guidance we are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ramps-up-efforts-to-call-federal-employees-back-to-the-office\/\" title=\"Biden intensifies push for federal employees' return to office.\">releasing today directs agencies<\/a> \u200cto refresh their Work Environment plans and policies\u2014with\u200c the general expectation that agency headquarters will continue \u200bto \u200dsubstantially increase in-person\u200d presence in the office,&#8221; said Jason Miller, the deputy director of the White House Office \u200bof Management \u2063and \u200bBudget.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u2064latest calls from the executive office are the most aggressive \u200byet, Chief of Staff Zients emphasized that remote\u2062 work will not be completely eliminated. The goal is to strike \u2064a \u200cbalance between in-person time for building a strong culture, trust, and interpersonal connections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The\u2064 Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is pushing for federal employees to return to the office after a year of remote work. Downtown Washington, D.C., has suffered as federal office buildings remain empty. Biden and Republicans clash over defining the economy. 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