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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.
What a year to be director of the Congressional Budget Office. No one imagined what would soon strike the country.
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.
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.
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?
In today's Federal Newscast, Veterans Affairs officials tell Congress they're in the process of securing enough materials to test agency employees.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
Some agencies are preparing to provide masks for their employees when they return. Others aren't requiring them. At some organizations, telework will be "encouraged" as they gradually reopen. For others, telework is still mandatory.
The pandemic has changed when and how federal employees work, creating new challenges and opportunities for managers, leaders at several agencies say.
McAfee Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Ned Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the role of cybersecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw cloud usage spike.