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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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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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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.
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Letter: Some managers resist telework
[Management] at top levels say they are for it, however, they deny it at almost every opportunity except at the highest levels -- GS-11 and above -- because the rules say it [requires] their approval.
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Letter: Telework programs need leaders with vision
Many are put in positions because they were next in line and/or with little or no management and leadership experience/education.
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Letter: Performance monitoring is critical for efficient government teleworking programs
In the private sector, if employees don't produce, they are canned. If the workforce doesn't produce, management gets canned or the company goes under. With feds there is no such accountability.
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Letter: What are some telework guidelines?
My agency is using the excuse of positions not being "appropriate" for teleworking.
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Lawmakers push telework as overall participation drops
Security concerns and lack of a uniform tracking system are to blame for telework participation drops, OPM says.
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Letter: USPTO has 'hoteling' program, not a flexible telework program
Many other patent professionals would prefer to keep their agency office space and have the flexibility to telework for two days per week, as the article showed one USPTO manager doing -- but the agency refuses to allow thousands of rank and file employees to do so.
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Arbitrator orders ATF to let examiners telework
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives must extend telework to legal-instrument examiners under an arbitration panel ruling.
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GSA picks its telework chief
The agency looks to William Kelly, its director of HR Services, for help in meeting its goal of having 50 percent of its workers telecommuting by 2010.
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GSA issues laptops to kick off teleworking plan
Concerns about employees using unsecured personal computers to access agency networks led to the step, GSA's CIO said.
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Letter: OPM's suspension of telework unfair
The agency says it will reinstate telework after employees have been trained on a modernized retirement system, but one reader expects delays.
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OPM suspends telework for some of its workers
It was temporarily stopped Oct. 29 during a transition to the agency's modernized retirement system, which will go live in February 2008.
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2008 workforce plans focus on telework, recruitment
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council will work more closely next year with OPM on its goals.
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