Landlords Lendlease and Dexus say the push to get workers back to the office will pick up, after US President Donald Trump mandated five-day workplace attendance for employees of US federal government departments and agencies.

While they avoided commenting on Mr Trump’s executive order to eliminate work-from-home policies – which the newly inaugurated president followed with orders to sack diverse staff – heads of the two large property companies said the push to get staff back was accelerating.