'Chaos': Federal workers ordered to return to offices — even as leases terminated
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'Chaos': Federal workers ordered to return to offices — even as leases terminated

Raw Story  

President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers back into the office — after years of working from home following the pandemic — but some of those office spaces are being vacated, according to a new report. A lease had been canceled for office space in a southern U.S. state that housed Agriculture Department employees, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. “We can’t telework, but we aren’t going to have an office in a couple of months?” The report said Trump's mandate "led to chaos." "Workers have reported being compelled to kill time in hallways while they wait for their turn at desks in overcapacity offices, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency directed managers to flip a coin to resolve some conflicts over scarce workspaces," said the Post. OU Daily, the University of Oklahoma school newspaper, reported that one of the National Weather Service's two offices was closed — the Radar Operations Center in Norman was shuttered after the lease to the radar lab was canceled.

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AP Exclusive: DOGE may close hundreds of federal offices this summer

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