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Story summary
- The Department of Health and Human Services faces a backlog of over 9,000 reasonable accommodation requests after repealing telework to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump’s return-to-office mandate.
- HHS is temporarily reassigning mid-career and senior staff to process these requests.
- Former CDC advisor Linnet Griffiths says the backlog could take over a year to resolve.
- Jodi Hershey praised the CDC's decision to restore telework as an interim accommodation.
