The Biden administration wants to "aggressively" get federal workers back in the office by September or October, according to an email to the Cabinet on Friday, as Axios initially reported.

White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients wrote: "We are returning to in-person work because it is critical to the well-being of our teams and will enable us to deliver better results for the American people." He did say the move wouldn't totally eliminate remote work totally.

Last month came the news that most federal agencies have been using less than 25% of their office space. The General Accounting Office said agencies had "long struggled to determine how much office space they needed to fulfill their missions efficiently."

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