telework
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If any federal agency was in the spotlight at the beginning of the pandemic, it was the Small Business Administration. While SBA employees, like so many, made the swift move to maximize telework, they were simultaneously tasked with administering a trillion-dollar loan program.
September 24, 2020 -
While it has been an unimaginable tragedy for many people, for many of us, including feds, it has been survivable so far.
September 24, 2020 -
Like with telework, the Air Force may never go back to teaching the same way again.
September 22, 2020 -
Chi Kang, deputy director for Operations in NOAA’s Cyber Security Division, talked about how the agency made the pandemic shift to large-scale telework and how its modernizing legacy network systems.
September 22, 2020 -
When the pandemic hit, companies and government agencies were scrambling to figure out exactly how to run business as usual from home. Poly was one of the companies that helped fit the puzzle pieces together.
September 15, 2020 -
Agencies early in the coronavirus pandemic scrambled to scale up their IT infrastructure to handle mandatory telework and enable secure access to networks remotely.
September 14, 2020 -
Federal contractors have sensed a certain sluggishness in the government's pace of awarding contracts during the pandemic. Now, a review of this phenomenon finds it's more pronounced in the intelligence community.
September 11, 2020 -
Given the choice, would you take a reduced CSRS or FERS annuity later — for life — if it meant you could telework from the geographic location of your choice?
September 10, 2020 -
When do you tell tens of thousands of public servants, from Social Security, the IRS and a dozen other operations, that after several months of working from home it's time to return to their “real” and traditional offices?
September 08, 2020 -
Much of the agency is still teleworking, but the Social Security Administration told field office employees this week it would begin to recall some to help with the mail and other workloads. But the union representing field office employees says SSA's reentry plans are light on health and safety details.
September 03, 2020 -
This big department has been working to raise its employee engagement score since the beginning.
September 03, 2020 -
Chief information officers at the Government Publishing Office and NASA have learned quite a bit this year about their agencies’ telework capabilities, and how well their employees can adapt. New policies and technology have kept business moving and made leaders rethink some moves going forward.
September 02, 2020 -
While many feel that returning to the office is an insurmountable challenge, the fact is agencies can use a combination of technology, processes and data to address many of these new challenges.
September 01, 2020 -
There are some opportunities here for agencies to stabilize their current situations while simultaneously preparing for the future.
August 31, 2020 -
Air Force Materiel Command is looking at all of its position descriptions, written before COVID-19, to determine if they're more conducive to telework than originally thought.
August 31, 2020