The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has confirmed that federal agencies are to maintain remote work options for military and Foreign Service spouses, despite the Trump administration's return-to-office directives. This memo highlights the ongoing challenges military spouses face in finding employment due to frequent relocations, and emphasizes that they should not be subject to return-to-office mandates. The guidance ensures that agencies can appoint military spouses to remote positions and supports their career development, in line with longstanding policies encouraging their employment.
Agencies shall allow military spouses to continue in existing remote work arrangements-regardless of whether they were appointed under the Military Spouse Employment Act authorities-and may continue to appoint military spouses to remote work positions.
A law enacted in 2021 extended some of the same policies to spouses of Foreign Service personnel stationed overseas, who are in a similar position.
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