{"id":1992173,"date":"2023-08-05T19:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-insists-us-agencies-agressively-execute-shift-to-in-office-work\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T00:01:36","slug":"white-house-insists-us-agencies-agressively-execute-shift-to-in-office-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-insists-us-agencies-agressively-execute-shift-to-in-office-work\/","title":{"rendered":"White House urges US agencies to swiftly transition to in-office work."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwhite-house-insists-us-agencies-agressively-execute-shift-to-in-office-work%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=1992173&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>The White\u2063 House \u200bPushes \u200dfor More In-Person Work by September<\/h2>\n<p>In an email obtained \u200bby Reuters, White House\u2063 Chief of Staff Jeff Zients emphasized the\u200d importance of \u200breturning to in-person work for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-revokes-trump-anarchist-jurisdictions-order-restores-financing-to-portland-seattle\/\" title=\"Biden Revokes Trump \u2018Anarchist Jurisdictions\u2019 Order, Restores Financing To Portland, Seattle\">federal agency employees<\/a>. Zients stated, &#8220;we are returning to in-person work because it is critical to the well-being of our\u2062 teams and will enable us\u200c to deliver better results for the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Dozens of Congressional Staffers Descend on Stanford for \u2063AI Boot Camp<\/h3>\n<p>Zients further\u200c urged agencies to increase the\u2064 amount\u200d of in-person work for their teams, highlighting that this \u200cis a priority for President Biden. He \u200bcalled \u200bon employees \u2064to aggressively execute this shift in September and October.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Congressional Budget Office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-insists-us-agencies-agressively-execute-shift-to-in-office-work\/\" title=\"White House urges US agencies to swiftly transition to in-office work.\">federal agencies employ\u200d approximately\u2064 2<\/a>.25 \u200dmillion military personnel and 2.25 million civilian employees.<\/p>\n<p>In the first three months of this year, the \u2064Government Accountability Office reported that 17 out of 24 agency buildings were operating at 25% capacity or less.\u2063 The cost of maintaining the 21.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-closes-and-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-u-s-warehouses\/\" title=\"WOW - Amazon Closes and Abandons Dozens of Plans for U.S. Warehouses\">5 million square feet<\/a> of\u200d office space amounts to about $2 billion per year, with an additional $5\u200b billion per year \u200din office leasing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Federal\u200d Aviation Administration has already issued a return-to-work order of at \u2063least three days per week by October 9th. The\u2063 U.S. \u2063Department of Transportation will also begin \u2062implementing a minimum of three days in the office every two weeks starting \u2063on\u2063 September 10th, with a minimum \u2062of four days per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gives-federal-employees-major-raise-that-still-doesnt-keep-pace-with-inflation\/\" title=\"Biden gives Federal employees a major raise that doesn't keep up with inflation\">pay period beginning<\/a> on December 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden ended the COVID-19 emergency order\u200b in \u200cApril of this year, which had required half\u200d of all federal employees to \u200cremain \u200din the office since the pandemic began in March 2020. In February 2022, the Government Accountability Office found that telework \u200bhours in some federal agencies accounted for more than 80%\u200d of total work time.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, \u2063according to the \u2064Bureau of Labor Statistics, between August and September 2022, 72.5% of private-sector establishments reported little or no telework, compared to \u206360.1% between July and September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>About\u2062 16% of establishments reported having some remote employees, with 2.4% hiring at least one employee to work \u2063entirely remotely. Additionally, 11% of establishments boasted an entirely remote staff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to \u2062read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House aims to increase in-person work by September, emphasizing its importance for team well-being and improved outcomes for the American people. 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