OPM demands agencies comply with Trump's telework order within 30 days

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I worked for a state agency in PA working on Fed-State cooperative programs. We worked very closely with the Federal employees on these programs. We did not have any telework option in the state prior to the pandemic in 2020. However, most federal workers we worked with were already teleworking at least several days a week for at least 5 years prior to 2020 when the pandemic forced much more widespread telework.

In PA, after the pandemic in 2020 forced much of the state government to move to telework in order to keep operations ongoing, it was such a success with increased productivity and lower costs that telework was widely kept as official policy even after the pandemic no longer required it.