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Agencies considering long-term implications of a partially remote or hybrid workforce, everything from recruitment and professional development to leased space and locality pay.
February 11, 2021 -
Much of the federal workforce is teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Office of Personnel Management wants employees to brush up on the agency's early dismissal and closure policies as the winter season continues.
February 11, 2021 -
Though they've both hired new people in the year since the Agriculture Department's Kansas City relocation, two of USDA's major research bureaus are operating today with nearly 30% fewer employees, data shows.
February 08, 2021 -
What the heck is a liberal leave snow day anyhow, when almost nobody is already coming to the office?
February 01, 2021 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Brian Chidester, Global Public Sector marketing executive for OpenText, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the benefits and challenges of using the "whole of government" approach to resolving issues in the federal government.
January 28, 2021 -
Agencies have new guidance for implementing the president's new mask mandate from the Office of Management and Budget. According to the new guidance, "every effort will be made to maximize the use of remote work."
January 25, 2021 -
The National Treasury Employees Union said it will push agencies at the bargaining table, as well as the new administration and Congress through legislation or new policy, to consider making telework arrangements and remote work programs permanent.
January 18, 2021 -
Federal News Network conducted an anonymous, online reader survey to gauge feds' reactions to the Jan. 6 events and what they think could happen next.
January 18, 2021 -
Walter Barnes, president of PM Consulting Group, cautions "not so fast" when it comes to releasing office space, in favor of permanent telework.
January 15, 2021 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency started implementing functionality from the $7.6 billion contract on Thursday, deploying DEOS capabilities first to the agency's own users.
January 15, 2021 -
Most federal employees in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area are teleworking, but the Office of Personnel Management is encouraging anyone who isn't to consider remote work plans surrounding Inauguration Day.
January 14, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis from Bloomberg Government found agencies spent almost 700 billion dollars on procurement last year.
January 07, 2021 -
A majority of the federal employees and contractors who responded to a recent Federal News Network reader survey said they'd prefer to telework at least three days a week once the pandemic ends — if they had the choice to set their own remote work schedules.
January 06, 2021 -
The pivot to remote telework has brought significant challenges, but it also presents the opportunity to accelerate government IT transformation to a more efficient, flexible and secure operating posture.
December 29, 2020 -
Here’s the choice: Money or quality of life. Maybe not much of a choice if getting a smaller salary in return for a less hectic environment would actually be stressful. Whatever, work-at-home feds may soon…
December 24, 2020