Quick Hits

*** The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is extending telework to all employees "other than the minimal staffing required to handle mail," according to an agency release. More agencies are likely to follow suit after a White House memo released late March 17 told agencies to maximize telework and possibly make it mandatory in certain cases for federal employees.

*** The IRS cloud strategy rolled out in 2017 is only partially meeting all three phases of the federal government's decade-old Cloud First policy, according to a new Department of Treasury audit. According to auditors, IRS set up 10 workflows around issues like cloud migration, procurement and an enterprise-wide cloud portfolio assessment but many are only partially complete, and major ones for procurement and enterprise-wide portfolio assessment streams have not started at all.