Power Up: Working-from-home could be permanent for many federal employees under Biden Jacqueline Alemany In the agencies THE PANDEMIC WORK-FROM-HOME EXPERIMENT CONTINUES: “As the Biden administration contemplates how to return the massive federal workforce to the office, government officials are moving to make a pandemic experiment permanent by allowing more employees than ever to work from home — a sweeping cultural change that would have been unthinkable a year ago,” our colleague Lisa Rein scoops this Monday morning. “The shift across the government comes after the risk-averse federal bureaucracy had fallen behind private companies when it came to embracing telework — a posture driven by a perception that employees would slack off unless they were tethered to their office cubicles. That position hardened during the Trump administration, which dialed back work-from-home programs that had slowly expanded during the Obama era.”