In what is an accomplishment for President Donald Trump’s administration, a new survey found that the number of federal employees who are teleworking is at an all-time low since its high during the pandemic.

The Jobs Report for the month of April showed that 81.8 percent of federal workers said that they did not work from home for pay, in contrast to 79.2 percent of private-sector employees, The Washington Times reported.

The report showed that 11 percent of private sector workers said they worked “some hours” from home, but only 8.9 percent of federal employees said the same.

It also showed that 9.8 percent of workers in the private sector “teleworked all hours,” and 9.7 percent of federal workers said the same.

“Those numbers represent a marked decrease from last year under President Biden. In April 2024, 68.5% of federal workers said they did not work at home for pay, which was on par with the private sector,” The Washington Times report said.

“During the same month, 19.8% of federal workers said they worked ‘some hours’ from home compared to 10.5% in the private sector. Also in April 2024, 11.5% of federal workers said they teleworked ‘all hours’ compared to 9.9% in the federal workforce,” it said.

Trump and Elon Musk, the latter of whom was placed in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), aimed to get federal employees back into the office under threat of termination.

“President Trump promised to make our federal government more accountable, transparent and efficient. The Trump administration is delivering on this promise by making federal employees return to the office and better serve the American people,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said to The Washington Times.

Trump made getting federal employees back in their offices an early priority.

“We have informed the federal workforce, which they’ve looked to do for many years, that if they’re working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule,” the president said in January in the East Room before signing the “Laken Riley Act” into law.

“We don’t want them to work from home, because as everyone knows, most of the time they’re not working, they’re not very productive, and it’s unfair to the millions of people in the United States who are in fact working hard from job sites and not from their home. As federal employees, they must meet a high standard. They’re representing our government, they’re representing our country. If they don’t agree by February 6th to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated and we will therefore be down scaling our government, which is something that the last 10 presidents have tried very hard to do, but failed,” the president said.

“Most of the people we’re talking about have not been going to their federal offices in many, many years, from even before COVID, but they have nevertheless been paid. Some have worked, some haven’t worked, and most of the studies say that some have just gone through the motions,” Trump added.

“We may ask these people to prove that they didn’t have another job during their so-called employment with the United States of America, because if they did, that would be unlawful. As you understand, a lot of people are getting paychecks, but they’re actually working other jobs, so they’ll have to prove that to us, that they weren’t,” he continued.

“In any event, we’re requiring them to show up to work or be terminated. We think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient, and that’s what we’ve been looking to do for many, many decades, frankly,” he said.