“President Trump recently issued a Presidential Memorandum (PM) titled “Return to In-Person Work,” the text of which is included below. NASA intends to fully comply.
‘Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.‘
…Please continue to remain focused on the mission. Right now, we have dozens of spacecraft studying different aspects of our solar system and the distant universe. We have four American astronauts living and working in space, with several crew members on Earth training for upcoming missions. And we have engineers and researchers working on technology development that will advance the future of flight and space exploration.”
-Information emailed to NASA staff on January 24, 2025 from NASA’s acting Administrator Janet Petro (see below). This follows a message earlier in the week shutting down all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. The earlier email also asked employees to report on one another if DEI appeared anywhere. This latest email orders everyone back to work and then is nice enough to remind them that they left four astronauts in space who still need tending to. Not exactly a good week a NASA workforce that “already exceeds…expectations.”
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