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Individual agencies have extolled the benefits of telework and are rethinking their workforce policies to evolve with the times. But will the entire federal government, as a whole, adopt a similar mentality?
Some agencies have outgrown their formal telework policies in the pandemic, and they're using full-time remote work arrangements to entice new employees and retain existing ones.
Michael Sarich, FOIA director for the Veterans Health Administration, said “FOIA programs are going to be fine if our people are fine."
Agencies practically went from zero to 100 on telework this spring. So what's next for the future of remote work?
Several agencies say they've reached a point where they're recruiting from a broad pool of geographically dispersed talent for 100% telework positions, and some envision a scenario where those arrangements are permanent.
Telework is the norm now. And it's hitting different people in different ways. Readers wrote in to tell us how their experience has been so far. Here's what they had to say.
The fact is that millions of people who never dreamed they would be working from home have now been at it close to a year. With no end in sight, if some experts are correct. How are you feeling?
Some challenges from the pandemic require new solutions. The pandemic has also come with its own unique workload for GAO.
Agencies and their contractors are starting to ask: What exactly is the future of federal work? SAIC surveyed people across government to get a feel for what they're thinking.
The rush to mandatory telework in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic laid bare the state of agencies’ investment — or lack thereof — in IT infrastructure. That same lesson holds true for agency…
When it comes to cybersecurity federal agencies, along with many large organizations and small ones, are still digging out of the cybersecurity hole.
Surveys showing how much people like teleworking have a flaw: The respondents are often self-selected telework enthusiasts.
As the pandemic and teleworking drag on, people stuck at home are starting to discover the secondary effect of isolation from coworkers.
There are 50,000 people working in the Energy Department's nuclear security enterprise and for obvious reasons, most of them haven't had the option of teleworking during the pandemic.