Is telework training a solution in search of a problem? Last week I noted that the recent Kinetic Workplace survey found firms providing telework training increased 15% from 2001 to 2002. Here, we’ll ...

Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) sponsored the Telework Enhancement Act, which was signed into law last year. The law requires each agency to create telework policies, determine employee eligibility, and ...

A bipartisan pair of senators on Thursday proposed legislation that would codify federal employees’ use of remote work in federal law, as well as establish stronger reporting and training requirements ...

In early August the House of Representatives approved The Telework Enhancement Act of 2007 that among other things tells agencies–including the courts–to make telework training mandatory, to conduct ...

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. President ...

Changes in the telework industry tend to be subtle and a little tough to read. That’s why this year’s Workplace Trends survey from Kinetic Workplace feels like a gift. The results in three areas are ...

When the 88th Air Base Wing’s Strategic Initiatives Office was initially created in May 2019, the main focus was finding ways to quickly accommodate the growing workforce at Wright-Patterson Air Force ...

FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee found that prolonged pandemic-era telework has been "detrimental" to government agencies and new employee training, and it laid out in a new report proposed ...

The Office of Personnel Management says that its efforts to harness workplace flexibilities like telework and remote work over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic will also help agencies adapt to ...

Senator Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) recent claims that only 6 percent of federal employees work in person full-time, while nearly one-third work remotely on a full-time basis, have reignited debates about ...