Modernization
OMB sets deadline for telework IT policies
The Office of Management and Budget is giving agencies 90 days to develop or update policies on buying IT to enable and promote the federal government’s adoption of telework.
People
Tips for teleworkers: How to write better e-mail messages
Some federal managers write bad e-mail messages, says the Corporate Executive Board. Here are tips for doing it better.
Modernization
Fiberlink's MaaS360 enables GSA telework initiatives
The General Services Administration is leveraging Fiberlink's "mobility-as-a-service" technology.
People
Green benefits of telework aren't just for Earth Day
Telecommuting is said to have many benefits for the environment.
Modernization
Keeping tabs on you and your teleworker, too
A third party releases an iPhone app to log users' keystrokes, and two scientists discover the same device is keeping tabs on your locations in an unprotected way.
Digital Government
A telecommuting break for DISA
Nearly 50 percent of DISA's Fort Meade employees have been approved to work remotely.
People
VA starts telework tax credit
Virginia companies are being offered cash in exchange for starting telework progams.
People
Telework guidance incorporates Telework Act
The Office of Personnel Management on April 18 issued a telework guide to help agencies implement the Telework Enhancement Act and to serve as a resource on the law for rank-and-file feds.
Digital Government
Announcing the winners of the FCW caption contest
The entries are in, and the most recent FCW caption contest drew an astounding number and variety of ideas.
People
Telework Enhancement Act: Easing into a new mindset
The sponsor of the Telework Enhancement Act talks about the progress agencies are making, what has held back telework in the past and how those obstacles can be overcome.
People
Managing teleworkers can be business as usual
Manager resistance to telework often revolves around perceived challenges of monitoring remote workers' performance, but some telework veterans say separate oversight isn't needed.
People
Teleworkers stay in the loop
Popular perceptions of telework as the playground for slackers and the disconnected don't jibe with reality, studies show.
People
Making federal managers into successful teleworkers
With the passage of the Telework Enhancement Act last year, there is a strong push in the government to increase the number of federal employees -- including managers -- who telework on a regular basis.
Digital Government
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?
Modernization
The shadow teleworkers: How informal arrangements threaten security
Studies show the number of federal employees unofficially working remotely is outpacing the official estimates.
People
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.
People
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.
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
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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