USPTO Director Andrei Iancu explained to how the telework experience helped in the pandemic when everyone was forced home. But first, Temin asked him about worldwide intellectual property cooperation.
Supporting about 70,000 students in several time zones, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) has seen its share of IT challenges. Its schools began the academic year Monday, offering both in-person and virtual classroom options.
For the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), with more than 100,000 employees around the country, the mission to move to telework, and ensure a secure remote workforce, was critical.
The pandemic has changed how government employees and their managers think about telework. For one example, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Bill Bryan, chief of the Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate.
Federal employees share personal stories on the pros and cons of teleworking.
In today's Federal Newscast, more members of Congress are calling on Citizenship and Immigration Services to delay upcoming employee furloughs at the end of the month.
DISA officials say the workscape will never look the same again now that DoD has seen what telework can do.
The Social Security Administration will indefinitely require members of the public to make appointments for in-person services that can't be done online or over the phone, the agency said in its new "resposturing plan." Telework will also continue for most employees.
IT modernization efforts have been critical to the success agencies have found when forced to rapidly transition to remote work. To continue to deliver on the mission, IT departments need to focus on providing the right tools to employees.
How the DEA made the move away from the pre-COVID office life to telework was aided by already having the foundation in place.
Whether you are fortunate enough to work from home, or are still schlepphing into the office daily, are you not the person you were before the pandemic changed just about everything?
Some agencies' new routines might be here to stay, according to IT security officials who say the feasibility of long-term telework has opened the door to a reimagining of the civil service.
Under a new collective bargaining agreement, eligible employees at the EPA can telework up to two days a week. But the agency suggested employees could have had a more generous policy if its union had made its own concessions.
Defense and national security tech leaders are trying to balance implications of mass telework with pre-existing cyber priorities, and fend off an unending onslaught of bad actors trying to exploit the – in some cases – woefully unprepared remote federal workforce.
Can we all agree, mass telework and virtual meetings and the rest of it, are getting old?