The Department of Defense (DoD) has established a new task force led by Dana Deasy, DoD chief information officer and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, to help address teleworking-related challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic, FedScoop reported Monday.
Read More »Report Says Agencies Should Treat Telework, Office Work Equally
The Merit Systems Protection Board recently released a report advising federal agencies to treat teleworkers and non-teleworkers equally. According to GovExec, the report found teleworking improves employee work-life balance, reduces the need for physical office space and real estate costs, and enhances an organization’s intangible relationships with employees through increased …
Read More »Agencies Need Guidance on Telework, Report Says
Federal agencies failed to coordinate on unscheduled telework policies for employees and government guidance does not clearly instruct agencies on incorporating the practice, the Government Accountability Office said in a July 22 report. In March, the Office of Personnel Management began to allow employees to request unscheduled leave or unscheduled …
Read More »OMB Releases Telework Security Requirements
Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew issued Friday a memo to agencies that outlined the minimum security guidelines for implementing the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. The memo urged agencies to ensure that cybersecurity protections for information and information systems are used while teleworking. In the memo, Lew …
Read More »IBM Releases Telework Study
The IBM Center for the Business of Government recently released a study highlighting the progresses of government agencies’ implementation of telework opportunities. Following the passage of “The Telework Enhancement Act of 2010,” the report examines the four agencies that have most successfully implemented telework programs and offers recommendations to federal …
Read More »Teleworking Act Passed by House, Headed for President’s Desk
After years of planning, congressional vote wrangling and a couple of epic snow storms, the House passed teleworking legislation yesterday. The last step in the teleworking saga is the signature of President Barack Obama, whose administration has supported the legislation that makes it easier for federal workers to work part …
Read More »‘Work is What You Do’: Martha Johnson on Teleworking
In an editorial for The Federal Times taken from remarks Martha Johnson made in an Oct. 7 speech at the Telework Exchange, the General Services Administration administrator advises her audience – and her readers – to begin to think about work differently. “Work is what you do, not where you …
Read More »OPM Head: Telework Will Change ‘Butts in Seats’ Management Style
Speaking before a Telework Exchange Town Hall last week, head of the Office of Personnel Management John Berry again voiced his support for teleworking for federal employees, Nextgov reports. Employers should take broad steps to open up the teleworking option for most federal employees. Managers “should begin with the presumption …
Read More »Phoning It In: Senate Passes Teleworking Bill
More federal workers could be phoning it in – in a good way, as the Senate approved new teleworking legislation Sept. 30. The bill, which is similar to one passed by the House of Representatives in July, makes all federal workers eligible to telecommute and stipulates that teleworking be part …
Read More »Telework Bill Passes through House
The House voted 290-131 yesterday to approve the Telework Improvements Act, a legislation that allows federal employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every two administrative workweeks. Under the bill, the Office of Personnel Management would develop a telework policy for all employees in federal …
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