Modernization

Letter: Cut telework equipment expenses by hoteling

Shared offices or hoteling is a teleworking option. One reader shares how to make it work at your agency.

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Navy opens contract to small firms

A newly signed agreement between the Navy and the Small Business Administration gives small and disadvantaged businesses more opportunities under a contract.

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Some telework security guidelines

Telework.gov offers links to various tools, relevant guidance and legislation related to telework.

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Letter: COOP and telework won't be issues until next disaster

A reader says continuity-of-operations planning and teleworking will not get agencies' attention until the next crisis arises.

Modernization

Letter: AtHoc not a de facto alert platform for military

A reader finds a source comment misleading about AtHoc's alert platform being a "'de facto' alert platform for the Navy and Air Force."

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OPM’s best practices for COOP

The Office of Personnel Management provides key principles for continuity-of-operations planning.

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Keeping employees in the COOP loop

Agencies examine how to engage teleworkers in their continuity of operation plans.

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GSA and AFGE sign telework agreement

The General Services Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees have agreed to a policy that lets GSA employees combine telework with alternative work schedules.

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Letter: Pro-telework policies for feds overdue

A reader says allowing feds to telework is a way to minimize highway traffic, save money on government building space and provide fed commuters with relief from gas prices.

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House telework bill advances

Stronger language added to bill to ensure that data that is transferred to the home computers of teleworkers is kept secure.

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Letter: Telework expansion depends tax removal

A reader writes about the barrier of taxation and how the Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act can help.

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Get a Life!: Teleworking away from home

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Senate appropriators look to boost telework

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to its Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill that would boost federal teleworking requirements.

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Smart phones, smart leadership?

Management becomes a 24/7 job when executives,managers and supervisors get BlackBerrys.

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Get a Life!: More about telework

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Letter: GSA's attention divided by telework issues

A reader asks Lurita Doan, GSA's administrator, to focus on tackling the Alliant contract and other major tasks under the agency's mission.

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GSA cakewalking to its telework goal

Doan’s push: 50 percent by 2010.

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Letter: Upper managers are blocking telework

A reader says Army employees have been waiting for a telework policy for far too long.

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House committee approves telework bill

The measure to expand teleworking now goes to the full House; the Senate will consider similar legislation.