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

DISA says ‘yes, sir’ to telework

Workplace options could forestall employee losses

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

USPTO to let examiners work at home

Officials said the agency must offer alternative work arrangements to attract and retain high-quality employees.