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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would codify federal workers’ use of remote work in the U.S. Code, as well as establish stronger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Laptops fill a table as part of a U.S. Transportation Command telework initiative at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, April 15, 2020. USTRANSCOM's Control, Communications and Cyber Systems Directorate ...

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.) ...

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 ...