Congress Losing Patience on Federal Workforce’s Return to Office | Bloomberg Government

Lawmakers are ramping up their rhetoric and probes of federal workforce telework policies.

There’s an increasing sense on Capitol Hill that federal agencies have lagged too far behind the private sector in having employees work mainly in person.

GOP lawmakers see the issue as the latest way to bash federal workers as part of the party's orthodoxy to shrink the federal government.

Federal and D.C. government agencies should bargain with labor, union president says.

Working in partnership with workers’ unions will help agencies balance competing interests, he says.

Michael Bloomberg advocated for federal employees to return to more frequent in-office work in an op-ed in the Washington Post .