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 ...

Telework only will be successful and widely adopted across the government when agencies and managers establish clear goals for what the practice can do for them and what teleworkers are expected to ...

Security, bandwidth, and training issues are challenges for any agency starting or expanding a telework program. USPTO has to move massive patent application and trademark agreement documents back and ...

You start a new job, report your first day of work, and find out employees from another organization down the hallway are rarely around because they telework. "Telework?" you ask. "How does that work?

Telework training has been around forever; but only now are we seeing the first telework certificate program. Offered by Washington State University and the Telework Collaborative, the new online ...

Nationwide, companies and businesses are urging employees to work from home to help prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19. As a result, the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and U.S. Army ...

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would require federal agencies to maximize telework for the rest of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pandemic Federal Telework Act comes in ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

In the heated arena of election-year politics, the issue of federal employees working remotely has become an unexpected battleground. Recent accusations by House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) ...

This week, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission (CSC) approved a motion to extend the Model Telework Pilot Program for state employees until June 30, 2024. The program, established in April 2022, ...