President Trump has wisely ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week.

The move mirrors moves in the private sector, where 75% of workers with jobs that could be done remotely are required by their employers to show up in person.

Even Biden administration officials have privately railed against federal workers who are “phoning it in” from home. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen even broke cover and testified last June that the IRS labor union’s “work from home” practice was the reason the tax agency couldn’t hit a 50% in-office target.

When she appeared before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Senator Susan Collins of Maine asked why so many of her constituents weren’t getting timely or adequate service from IRS workers. She noted that even though IRS policy was to have workers behind their desks half the time, “the Inspector General found that IRS employees telework 22% of the time, worked in person 38% of the time, and engaged in some sort of hybrid work 40% of the time on average.”

Yellen responded: “You know, some of the employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements, they’re members of the union, and to enforce those rules requires an agreement with the union.”

Senator Collins replied: “Let me suggest that I think those contracts need to be renegotiated with the taxpayers’ interests in mind.” To which Yellen said: “Agreed.”

We predict that President Trump’s work order will force some federal unions back to the negotiating table.