Hybrid work schedules for federal employees have plummeted under President Donald Trump, even though they remain widespread for other U.S. workers whose duties don’t require them to be onsite.
Data released by Gallup on Wednesday shows the prevalence of hybrid arrangements — a combination of at-home and in-office work — has decreased only slightly for the workforce at large over the past two quarters, dropping from 55% to 51%. At the same time, the number of those who work fully remote has ticked up 2%.
But the federal workforce is a different story. While 61% of feds worked under a hybrid model in late 2024, only 28% reported doing so in surveys Gallup conducted in May, after the Trump administration began its crackdown on work-from-home scheduling.
So even though hybrid work in general has endured post-pandemic, “the hybrid era is over” within the federal government, Gallup reported.
Bringing federal workers back into the office full-time has been a priority for the White House since Trump was inaugurated. Although administration officials argued employees are more productive in-person, it’s also clear they wanted to make the jobs more stressful and less enjoyable so that many people would quit.
