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Feds stay home in droves for Telework Week
More than 34,000 federal employees participated in National Telework Week, 10 percent of them first-time teleworkers. What did they gain?
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The shadow teleworkers: How informal arrangements threaten security
Studies show the number of federal employees unofficially working remotely is outpacing the official estimates.
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Telework puts managers in tight spot, officials say
Most federal work doesn’t lend itself to measuring direct output from an employee, which makes it hard to directly measure performance, officials say.
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Telework centers: An idea whose time has come...and gone?
GSA's plan to shutter telework centers raises the question of whether it was truly telework to start with.
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Can we avoid telework train wrecks?
The number of federal employees who telework is going to grow this year, but it’s not going to be a successful situation for all of them.
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Telework option makes for happier employees
Feds who have the choice to telework are more satisfied than those who don't have that choice, the Partnership for Public Service finds.
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OPM updates unscheduled telework option
The Office of Personnel Management is revising its dismissal and closure procedures for the Washington, D.C., area after January’s snowstorm commute that left some people stranded on the road for up to 13 hours.
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When telework really isn't
GSA's telework centers don't provide true telework, just a different drive to the office, argues Paul Cantwell.
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OPM report chronicles performance progress
The Office of Personnel Management has posted its annual report card on how well the agency met its key human resources goals in the past fiscal year.
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12 telework centers shuttered
Telework centers in the D.C. region had until to Monday to decide whether or not they had enough funding to keeps doors open.
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First they giveth, then they taketh away
Well now that the opportunity for many feds to telework has been enshrined in law, a slew of government-supported telework facilities are getting the ax.
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GSA telepresence centers coming soon
The General Services Administration expects to have 15 telepresence sites – or virtual meeting rooms in federal buildings – up and running in April or May of this year, according to a senior GSA official.
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OPM report generates more debate about telework
In telework news from around the Web: A growing number of ad hoc teleworkers; 6 ingredients of a telework strategy; Is telework fraud, 'plain and simple'?
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More feds teleworking, OPM reports
More than 10 percent of eligible federal employees now telework, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s annual Status of Telework Report.
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Telework tips to relieve management fears
An expert provides some guidance for managers who are worried about allowing employees to telework.
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Broadband plan debate: federal bureaucracy or local initiative?
From reforming the Universal Service Fund to determining how grants are allocated, headaches remain for agencies in starting the National Broadband Plan.
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Government lags in providing telework-enabling tech to employees, study says
Government information employees don't have mobile technologies to support location flexibility, according to a new international study by Forrester Research.
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Hey there, out on the plains …
The federal telework bill got a good nudge toward passage last year in the wake of a pair of big snow storms in the D.C. area.
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