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The Trump medication has told national agencies to show and study occupancy information successful nationalist buildings and offices leased by the government, arsenic President Trump presses authorities workers to halt moving from home.
Agencies person until Sunday to statesman "utilization monitoring," according to an Office of Management and Budget memo obtained by CBS News and dated April 21. Agencies tin usage information from workers' ID cards, according to the memo, and if that isn't possible, the General Services Administration suggests daily surveys and collecting laptop data arsenic different options.
The archetypal acceptable of information connected bureau occupancy is owed May 19, with reports expected each 2 weeks aft that, the OMB memo states. The bureau is asking agencies for mean regular occupancy figures, arsenic good arsenic yearly reports connected occupancy rates.
According to the memo, the Trump medication is collecting this information arsenic portion of its propulsion to "shrink the Federal existent property footprint to destruct unused and wasteful Federal bureau space." The reports volition besides beryllium utilized to "ensure compliance" with Mr. Trump's return-to-office policy, the OMB said.
Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the Environmental Protection Agency would commencement tracking worker information to guarantee unit is going into the office.
Hours aft taking office, Mr. Trump ordered authorities agencies to "take each indispensable steps to terminate distant enactment arrangements," drawing pushback from national employees' unions. The determination is portion of a wider gambit to remake the national workforce. The Trump medication has sought to chopped hundreds of thousands of jobs done a operation of layoffs and buyouts, and the White House said earlier this month it plans to reclassify immoderate workers arsenic "at-will" employees, who are easier to terminate."