federal telework

With ‘spying bosses’ on the rise, where do federal agencies stand on employee monitoring?

One federal office has turned to employee monitoring technology in recent years, and it’s led to a major rift between workers and management.

Federal Report

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First Look

Senate bill aims to set more federal telework reporting requirements

Congress

Last chance to take our survey: What do feds think about return-to-office?

Workforce

Census Bureau rethinks scope of remote work policy, consolidates office space

Federal Report

Education’s return-to-office announcement ‘perplexing’ to union

Federal Report

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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Agencies navigating federal hiring challenges for employees with disabilities

Hiring/Retention

Drew Friedman, Federal News Network

Rachel Shonfield and Lashea Williams at FAIR Act rally

Lawmakers call telework protest ‘hypocritical’

Federal Newscast

Federal telework, work-life balance often top issues in collective bargaining

Unions

Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

Budget

Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

SSA adds ‘episodic’ telework flexibility for agency employees

Workforce

Congress swings-and-misses at impeachment, foreign aid, federal telework

Congress

Federal telework debate escalates as House Republicans push for details

Leaders on the Oversight and Accountability Committee are now turning to OMB to try to get deeper details on federal telework.

Workforce

An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

DoD updates telework policy for the first time since 2012

The updated policy on telework is a permissive one. The biggest change – it now addresses remote work.

Federal Report

Social Security HQ employees ordered to increase in-person work starting April 7

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast: The cybersecurity threat from Chinese infiltrators continues to grow, according to an outgoing Army general. The Department of Veterans Affairs got more than 46,000 homeless veterans into permanent housing last year. And employees at Social Security headquarters are ordered to increase in-person work, starting in April.