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 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.