US civil servants are plotting to sabotage Donald Trump’s ban on working from home by “relaxing” during office hours and taking more time off.

Disgruntled federal workers are publicly discussing plans to work less and “relax” more in response to the new president’s “fascist” demand that they return to the office.

One of Mr Trump’s first actions after being sworn in last week was to order heads of government departments to “terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations”.

“[Funnily] enough, it’ll be the opposite of ‘return to work’ because I’ll just be using more leave,” one civil servant wrote on a Reddit forum popular with federal workers.