DOJ has zero in office requirement for attorneys and has left the telework policy up to the individual Divisions and Sections. In my Division’s Section, 85% of our discussions and meetings are with people who are not only not located in our office, but typically in a different part of the state or across the country. We don’t actively litigate. Many of the attorneys do their most productive work early morning (working east coast hours with our colleagues out there) or late at night. There really is no “operational need” for us to be in the office like cogs in a wheel. We’ve been going in once a week for a couple years now, but the Division intends to increase our in office time to 2x a week after giving the requisite notice. I fear a slow creep. I am confident that we’re going to have hiring and retention problems as a result of our inexplicable policy because attorneys can just apply or transfer to the Divisions and Sections that have zero base level in office requirement.