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Telework news from FierceGovernmentIT
Also referred to as telecommuting, telework allows employees to complete the work of a full-time job from home or other secure locations. The physical commute to work is replaced more and more frequently by communication over web and wire channels.
In May 2010 the Senate passed the Telework Enhancement Act, which granted the ability to federal employees to telework and required managers to draft, document, and oversee telework protocol. The act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2010.
Recently the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) launched telework.gov, a source for guidelines, news releases and resources for training. In April 2011 the OPM released federal telework guidelines in a 41-page document; the guide includes information for telework managers as to administration of practical telework policies.
NewsGSA installing 15 telepresence sites
The General Services Administration began installing a telepresence solution May 19 that aims to provide a budget- and environmentally-friendly alternative to work-related travel. "There will be 15 Read more...
Telework options really satisfy
The happiest federal employees aren't necessarily teleworkers, but those who can telework but chose not to, says the Partnership for Public Service. In a brief analysis dated March 7, the PPS Read more...
Study offers 10 tips for agency telework policies
As agencies face the July 2011 deadline for implementing the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, a recent report funded by the IBM Center for The Business of Government offers guidance for navigating Read more...
Forrester: Government information workers dissatisfied with workplace technology
Government information workers typically work from one location, use a desktop rather than a laptop, and email serves as their collaboration software, according to Forrester Research. Maybe not Read more...
Report urges greater focus on fed retention
Federal agencies aren't thinking much about employee retention these days, but they should be, says a report from the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton. The report, released Jan. Read more...
Telework Improvement Act goes to Obama
The Telework Improvement Act (H.R. 1722) is now set to become law, following a Nov. 18 vote by the House of Representatives to approve the bill after the Senate passed it by unanimous consent earlier Read more...
Johnson: 14 GSA offices to have teleconferencing capabilities by early 2011
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The General Services Administration will be introducing teleconferencing centers at 14 of its offices by January or February of 2011, said Martha Johnson, chief administrator at Read more...
House approves telework bill
The House approved July 14 a second try a bill that would require agencies to allow telework to the maximum extent possible. Now that the House voted 290-131 in favor of it, the bill--or a comparable Read more...
Feds less satisfied with telework programs, says OPM survey
Federal employees are somewhat less satisfied today with their agency telework programs than in 2006 and 2008, according to the results of an Office of Personnel Management survey. The survey, the Read more...
Survey finds vast disparity in public- and private- sector telework
A survey of 177 information technology executives from the federal and private sectors in the Washington, D.C., metro area shows that 64 percent of the private sector teleworks regularly or Read more...
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