WASHINGTON — Civil servants are twice as likely to head into the office while their compatriots work from home, according to new data — and it is all thanks to President Trump.

Trump’s directive forcing federal workers back into their offices has turbocharged the number of government employees working on-site, according to a Gallup survey released Wednesday.

Between April and June of this year, 46% of public sector workers were based in the office full-time, while 28% embraced a hybrid model and 26% exclusively worked remotely. 

The numbers are a stunning reversal from the last three months of 2024, when 61% of bureaucrats were hybrid workers and 21% were fully remote — while just 17% were on-site.

Trump implemented an executive order on the first day of his term, Jan. 20, stating that most federal workers have to return to in-person work “as soon as practicable.”

“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,” the order stated.

Trump was met with resistance from bureaucrats who had moved away from their office space during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and were accustomed to remote or hybrid working.

However, the trend in DC doesn’t reflect the rest of the country.

Nationwide, just 21% of workers are back in the office full-time, the Gallup data show, a far cry from the 60% who were employed on-site in January 2019.

Hybrid workers now make up the majority of employment models in the US, with 51% choosing to work both remotely and on-site while 28% work entirely remotely — down from a peak of 70% in May 2020.

Trump’s stated reason for bringing federal workers back to the office was to have more oversight over what workers paid by Americans’ taxes were doing.

A government watchdog analyzed data at the beginning of Trump’s term and found that workers had committed “rampant telework abuse” during President Joe Biden’s four years in office.

“That era of telework abuse is over,” OPM Acting Director Chuck Ezell said in a June 20 statement. 

“At President Trumpʼs direction, OPM has restored in-person operations to ensure federal employees are working for the taxpayers.”

Seperately, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) found late last year that just 6% of the federal workforce were “in-person on a full-time basis” and one-third were remote on a full-time basis.

“From relaxing in bubble baths to sitting on the beach or even jail, I exposed that Biden’s bureaucrats were everywhere except the office,” Ernst said in a statement.

“I worked with the Trump administration on day one to end this nonsense and get these out of office federal employees back to serving the American people,” she went on.

“The data is clear that the return to office order is working, but my efforts to downsize Washington and create a more efficient government is just beginning. Next, I’m working to consolidate unused office space and selling off the thousands of vacant and underutilized buildings that cost taxpayers billions to maintain.”