President-elect Donald Trump's plan to cut federal bureaucracy by forcing people to stop working remotely faces a roadblock after a union secured a work from home deal for Social Security Administration (SSA) employees until 2029.

The American Federation of Government Employees, a federal employee union that represents 42,000 SSA workers, reached an agreement with the agency to lock in hybrid work protections until 2029, Bloomberg reported, citing a message to its members.

The new deal, signed by SSA Commissioner Martin O'Malley before he resigned last month, will allow workers to "maintain current levels of telework," AFGE chapter president Rich Couture wrote in the message.

"This deal will secure not just telework for SSA employees, but will secure staffing levels through prevention of higher attrition, which in turn will secure the ability of the Agency to serve the public."

Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Trump tapped Musk and Vivek Ramawamy to lead an advisory committee on cutting federal spending and regulations/ Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Currently, in-office requirements range from two to five days a week, depending on the job, unnamed sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

An AFGE spokesperson confirmed the agreement with the SSA and details in Bloomberg's report to Newsweek but declined to provide further comment.

Newsweek has contacted the SSA for comment via email. A Trump spokesperson has also been contacted for comment.

Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an outside advisory committee called the Department of Government Efficiency to work with people inside the government to reduce spending and regulations.

Musk and Ramaswamy have said they plan to end work-from-home policies as part of their plans to significantly reduce the federal workforce. The federal government is the nation's largest employer and employs about 3 million people.

Ramaswamy said in November that not allowing federal employees to work remotely would lead to voluntary resignations and reduce the federal workforce without firing anyone.

"If you literally just mandated that they have to show up for work, Monday through Friday, a radical idea, a good number of them would quit that way," Ramaswamy said on The Tucker Carlson Show. He added that the policy could cut the federal workforce by about 25 percent.

Ramaswamy and Musk laid out some of their plans to overhaul the federal government in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in November, including how they plan to end remote work for federal employees.

"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don't want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn't pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home," they wrote. However, flexible work arrangements were provided before the pandemic, though they varied by agency.

Musk has previously mandating in-person work at his office and emphasized the importance of it for productivity.

He described working from home as "morally wrong" as he advocated for employees to return to office settings last year.

Musk called tech workers the "laptop classes living in la-la-land" in an interview with CNBC, saying it was hypocritical to work from home while expecting service workers to continue to show up for their jobs.