A new study from the Office of Personnel Management cites 13 cases of happy government telecommuters in the hopes of encouraging more managers and employees to initiate and participate in ...
Some agencies have put new conditions on granting telework as a reasonable accommodation for federal employees with ...
Nearly half a million federal employees teleworked in fiscal 2015—a 70 percent jump over 2012 numbers—yet agencies are likely not making the most of telework programs across government. In a report ...
Telework, once a necessity during the pandemic, now stands at the forefront of a political battle. Republican members of Congress are castigating government leaders for insufficiently reining in the ...
In a recent hearing with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, the surprising revelation that federal workers telework less than their private-sector counterparts left many lawmakers ...
Yahoo and Best Buy could learn from the best telework example out there: the federal government. Late last month, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer announced that, as of June, the company’s ...
Back in in 2018 – in the pre-pandemic world – about 5% of the U.S. workforce teleworked from home. That changed dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; by May 2020 that number had jumped ...
One of the key public health responses to the global coronavirus pandemic has been social distancing – avoiding large groups of people in close quarters in order to inhibit the spread of COVID-19, the ...