Department of Health & Human Services email breakdown
02/24/2025: No SES, SES equivalents, Senior levels, or Appointees can remote work. All of their flexibility agreements (teleworking & remote work) will be terminated by that date. This also goes for supervisors with official duty stations within fifty miles of a facility. If a supervisor has a remote work agreement more than fifty miles away, they keep it until further notice.
04/25/2025: All non-BUEs within fifty miles of a facility have their flexibility agreements terminated. If they have a remote work agreement more than fifty miles away, they keep it until further notice.
The ones that get to keep them if they're more than fifty miles away will be filing such. This Will Go In Your Permanent File, as they said back in high school.
OD/SD Heads can extend those deadlines, case-by-case, based on situations, like "We downsized our footprint and we can't squeeze 100 people into a ten person facility."
Flexibility agreements for BFUs will not be modified until labor obligations have been met. Supervisors should leave BFUs alone about this until HHS has hashed this out through collective bargaining. We'll let you know more when that happens.
None of this changes approved Reasonable Accomodations.
None of this changes things for military spouses with approved PCS orders.
None of this changes anything for anyone hired under a remote position vacancy announcement, until further notice.
TL;DR: Nope. It's a nine bullet breakdown of a four page letter. If this is too long for you to read, I'm truly sorry for you. Go read it. But if I had to boil it down even more: If you're a supervisor or above, it probably sucks to be you. If you're not, but you're not a BUE, it probably sucks to be you. If you're not, and you're a BUE, keep calm and carry on, and try to be humble about it, because those of you in the third category are getting a lot more grace than a lot of your fellow federal peerage.