Leasing/Property Management

Pilot on sharing federal office space looks promising, but GSA has work to do before scaling up

GSA needs more data before it can expand a coworking pilot that lets agencies share federal office space, the Government Accountability Office found.

Facilities/Construction

Legionella bacteria in your office’s water? Don’t be alarmed

Federal Report

GSA: 75 years of adapting to the changing needs of agencies

Federal Report

GSA

Individual desks that can be moved to create collaboration spaces in GSA’s new Workplace Innovation Lab at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy GSA)

GSA gets a refreshed set of recommendations for dealing with real property

Leasing/Property Management

How Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is dealing with its telework-induced high-vacancy offices

Management

(Getty Images/iStockphoto/dusanpetkovic)

Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

OMB holding agencies ‘accountable’ for 50% in-office presence

Workforce

return-to-office, OPM, Schedule F, White House, federal workers

Exclusive

Survey: Back in the office, feds feel mixed on office space functionality

Workforce

Construction work is shown July 22, 2022, in the 1600 block of the cantonment area at Fort McCoy, Wis., on a second new transient training troops barracks project on the post.

Facing billions in facility backlogs, DoD looks to new pilot for ‘livable communities’

Defense News

Will that bridge collapse in Maryland affect federal supply chains?

Management

A big uptick in federal agencies’ deferred facility maintenance backlogs

Management

New FBI headquarters? Don’t hold your breath

Tom Temin Commentary

GPO vacates regional offices, embraces 100% telework for all eligible employees

As many other agencies announce decreases to telework, the Government Publishing Office is taking a different approach to the future of work.

Workforce

Empty federal offices are bad for the economy

Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half…

Agency Oversight

With most agency headquarters at 25% capacity, ‘hard decisions’ coming for federal office holdings

Leasing/Property Management

17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.