Agencies should aim for a 30-day deadline to implement Trump’s return-to-office executive order, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

It was no surprise when President Donald Trump this week issued a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and agencies, essentially directing them to get their employees back to the office full-time.

Many who work in the federal government knew that an incoming Trump administration would take aim at diversity, equity and inclusion jobs within their ranks.

The Office of Personnel Management has created a new email account meant to collect reports of suspected diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, one of a series of moves the Trump administration has taken to slash DEI efforts across the federal workforce.

A new memo from the human capital agency says federal agencies should change policies and require workers to be in the office full time by the end of the week.

Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.

VERIFY readers asked if workers were really told they would face “adverse consequences” if they did not help identify “disguised” diversity and inclusion roles.

OPM asked federal agencies to compile lists of workers to consider terminating, reflecting DOGE's goals to cut the government workforce.

According to the memo, OPM is requiring all federal agencies to notify their employees by Friday at 5 p.m. of their compliance with the executive order. Agencies are also mandated to update their telework policies with new language emphasizing in-person attendance.

Here’s what we know so far about President Trump’s executive order on requiring federal employees to return to work in person full-time.

Among the remaining questions were how the EPA’s environmental justice programs, which bring federal resources to areas heavier hit by pollution, would be impacted by the order. Federal employees on those programs were ordered to stop work Wednesday.

Existing authorities allow the president-elect to make certain temporary appointments during the transition to a new administration.