telework
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At least one agency, under a limited pilot program, allows its employees to work from anywhere in the United States, while accepting a duty station and locality pay change along with it. The benefits may be clear to agencies, but how about employees?
June 22, 2020 -
Another senior Pentagon official is resigning. Katie Wheelbarger, the acting assistant secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs submitted her letter of resignation on Wednesday.
June 19, 2020 -
Federal employees working from home largely report being more productive than when they go into the office, and while large-scale oversight efforts from the Government Accountability Office have only just started, GAO has acknowledged that it’s also seeing improvements from its own employees.
June 18, 2020 -
Roughly 85% of federal teleworkers said they were uncomfortable with the prospects of returning to the office after three months of remote work, according to a Federal News Network survey.
June 18, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, telework limitations rank high up on the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s list of federal agency challenges during the pandemic.
June 18, 2020 -
What a year to be director of the Congressional Budget Office. No one imagined what would soon strike the country.
June 17, 2020 -
Agencies made the transformation during the pandemic emergency in a short amount of time and now they have to figure out how to continue this momentum.
June 16, 2020 -
The Environmental Protection Agency launched a data-driven "facility status dashboard" to inform leaders' reopening decisions, while other federal agencies have begun their own "phase one" openings this week.
June 15, 2020 -
Much of the federal workforce has spent the three months working from home. When work is about what you do, not where you do it, where does that leave locality pay?
June 15, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Veterans Affairs officials tell Congress they're in the process of securing enough materials to test agency employees.
June 12, 2020 -
Vijay D’Souza, GAO’s director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, said agencies have to consider their various business processes and what could impact them, then what can be done to offset those impacts and keep operations moving smoothly.
June 11, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, while many agencies are setting reopening dates in early to mid-June to bring an initial wave of employees back to the office, the Merit Systems Protection Board is waiting until the end of June.
June 10, 2020 -
Not every job is appropriate for telework. But many federal agencies are finding out that it can be done on a far greater scale than had been anticipated.
June 10, 2020 -
As agencies make plans to gradually bring federal employees and contractors back to the office, how comfortable are you with making the return or resuming "normal operations?"
June 09, 2020 -
If you could work from home, would you work for less? That’s not an option for federal workers, yet, but it could be part of the major upheaval many experts predict as the world comes out of and slowly adjusts to life after the pandemic.
June 09, 2020