Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are determined to force federal employees to return to the office in hopes that some will opt to quit instead. That effort is going to affect some agencies – and workers – much more than others.

Only a handful of government employees spend their days writing or even enforcing rules. The vast majority distribute benefits or provide direct services to the public.

Incoming Trump administration advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy floated ending remote work for federal workers, calling it a “privilege” left over from the pandemic.

Follow updates on Trump’s cabinet and staff picks. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of what President-elect Donald J. Trump has called the Department of Government Efficiency, said on Wednesday that they supported requiring federal employees to work from the office five days a week as part of a broad overhaul of the civil service.

Musk and Ramaswamy said Trump would have the authority to implement a number of rules that could “curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of fe

After President-elect Donald Trump appointed Tesla founder Elon Musk and businessman and politician Vivek Ramaswamy as the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk and Ramaswamy are now looking to end work-from-home for all federal employees.