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Reporters’ Roundup: In earthquake, teleworkers win; OPM explains closures, more

These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today. The dress code is relaxing as offices thin out for the end of August. Federal News Radi...

Federal News Network Staff

August 24, 2011 6:30 pm

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These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today.

The dress code is relaxing as offices thin out for the end of August. Federal News Radio’s Mike Causey is getting all kinds of reports of bad sartorial behavior from all over the government, and he’s here to talk about what readers are telling him.
Tuesday’s earthquake shook us all, but information about whether you should go to work might have given you a headache. The Office of Personnel Management decided to keep agencies open today. But its story kept changing about whether specific buildings would close. Federal News Radio’s Ruben Gomez spoke with OPM’s Angela Bailey, who says the decision to close a building belongs to GSA.
The Veterans Affairs Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are among the agencies preparing to let their employees use their iPhones, iPads, and android devices on the agency networks. VA plans to lets employees start as early as October 1. The CDC is still in a pilot stage. But for CDC it’s not a matter of if, but when. Jaspool Sagoo is the CDC’s chief technology officer. He tells Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller about how CDC is implementing mobile computing for its workforce.
The Army has moved more than 2,000 users of the military’s secret computer network to a new, more secure system for signing in. It’s one of several advances the service says it’s making on identity management. WFED’s Jared Serbu has the story.
Yesterday’s earthquake led to clogged parking lots and long commutes home for many federal workers, followed by uncertainty about whether they should go into work this morning. Teleworkers didn’t have to deal with any of that. The earthquake may be a wake up call to agencies that have been slow to let employees work from home. WFED’s Emily Kopp has the story.