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Eligibility in federal telework programs dipped slightly in 2018, while participation experienced a small bump. The latest data from the Office of Personnel Management sheds light on the state of telework across government -- before agencies were forced to quickly "maximize" it during the current pandemic.
Here to take listeners behind the scenes, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the LOC's director of communications, April Slayton.
How one federal manager moved his co-workers to telework, shifted his hours and supervises his team of eight remotely during the pandemic.
States will need to completely refashion their January budget forecasts in light of the coronavirus, from normalizing employee telework and modernizing legacy unemployment, to health and social service applications.
In the span of just a few weeks, the military services have achieved five-to-tenfold increases in the number of users who can connect to their networks from home.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) have a long list of legislative proposals they want to see included in the next coronavirus rescue package for federal employees and contractors.
Federal employees and managers, and their industry partners need to consider how to make it all work from technology, people and security perspectives.
Sean Connelly, the Homeland Security Department’s TIC program manager, said new interim guidance letting remote workers connect to cloud services is heavily influenced by pilots that proved that flexibility and security don’t have to be opposite sides of the same coin.
Don Bice, who left in March after spending the last two years as USDA’s acting deputy assistant secretary for administration, said more employees were eligible to telework after the policy change, which frustrated many agency workers.
North Dakota reported smooth a telework transition, recommending compliance standardization and reliance on aggressive IAM protocols with MFA and zero trust perquisites.
Here are some tips to help keep you productive while you work through the quarantine!
Government contractors are changing the way they are communicating with their clients and seeking more details for how to continue to meet mission needs.
With large numbers of federal employees forced into telework, the contractor community has been working with agency leadership and Congress so their companies and customer agencies can keep going.
In today's Federal Newscast, a Supreme Court ruling finds federal employees have a lower bar to prove age discrimination in personnel actions, compared with the private sector.