Telework Reform Act of 2025

This bill, the Telework Reform Act of 2025, sets clearer rules for federal telework. It limits telework agreements to one year with yearly reviews, allows limits based on performance or discipline, and requires agencies to verify that employees work only from approved locations. It also lets agencies directly hire qualified veterans, military spouses, and spouses of law enforcement officers into full‑time remote jobs; the hiring authority for law enforcement spouses is a seven‑year pilot. The Office of Management and Budget must issue telework security guidelines, and the Government Accountability Office must study how long agencies take to handle the public’s service requests now compared with 2019.

• Who is affected: Federal employees who telework; qualified veterans, military spouses, and spouses of law enforcement officers; agencies like OMB and GAO; and people who seek help from federal agencies.
• What changes: One‑year telework agreements with annual reviews; possible limits tied to performance or discipline; verified work locations; direct hiring for certain groups into full‑time remote jobs; OMB security rules; GAO study of service times versus 2019.
• When: Telework agreements reviewed each year; the hiring program for spouses of law enforcement officers runs for seven years as a pilot.