Modernization
Panel: ATF not required to pay teleworkers' broadband costs
The Federal Services Impasses Panel rejected NTEU arguments that the costs of teleworkers’ broadband could be offset by potential savings in office space.
Modernization
Web extra: Technologies for telework
Agencies have extensively tested and used many telework technologies.
Modernization
Wired for telework
Federal agencies struggle to overcome reservations about a flexible work option they must offer eligible employees
People
GSA finds most agencies’ telework plans are ad hoc
Project management office for coordinating telework could help ensure telework success, GSA/ Booz Allen Hamilton study finds.
Modernization
GSA report finds more benefits than costs for telework
Agencies save much more than they spend in equipping employees to work from home, but management support is still often lacking.
Modernization
COOP policies lack leadership
Policy-makers push telework to the center of business continuity planning.
People
OPM unveils new federal career models
The program will offer alternative career paths, such as telework, nonstandard hours and flexible workdays.
People
Experts: Managers can impede telework, COOP
Managers’ misunderstandings and unwillingness to change are two of the main hindrances to implementing telework and continuity-of-operations plans.
People
ATF, unions agree on telework plan
The final agreement will cover about 750 agency employees.
People
GAO: Agencies need better telework plans
The Government Accountability Office laid much of the blame for agencies' lack of telework planning on the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
People
Welles: Telework coming alive?
With new guidelines and surveys showing more interest, has telework’s time come?
People
Adding telework to agency survival kits
A distributed workforce can keep essential services running after devastating man-made or natural disasters
People
GSA clarifies telework rules for managers
New guidelines attempt to eliminate confusion about legalities, properties
People
GSA clarifies telework rules
The detailed guidelines published March 17 in a General Services Administration bulletin are effective immediately.
People
DISA pins workforce hopes on telework
One of the ways DISA hopes to retain people is by allowing them to work from remote locations rather than having to be on-site
People
Telework mandates open doors to new business
Seizing on government requirements can bring success to federal contractors
People
Replacement grade
Seven points to ponder when buying suitable laptops for replacing desktop PCs
People
Telework could ease pandemic fears
Telework would enable people to keep working without face-to-face contact.
People