FDA re­view­ers head back to White Oak in 2023, with lead­er­ship look­ing to ap­pease a new Con­gress

Re­pub­li­cans have tak­en a stand against the pan­dem­ic era habit of lax work-from-home sched­ules. Now that they’ve wres­tled con­trol of the House ma­jor­i­ty, the FDA’s lead­er­ship is play­ing ball, send­ing many of the agency’s more than 18,000 em­ploy­ees back to their desks ear­ly next year.

Whether this ex­o­dus back to White Oak in Sil­ver Spring, MD (many staff will still be al­lowed to work from home for mul­ti­ple days per week) will mean more de­fec­tions to in­dus­try and else­where re­mains to be seen.

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