A new study from the Office of Personnel Management cites 13 cases of happy government telecommuters in the hopes of encouraging more managers and employees to initiate and participate in ...

Nearly half a million federal employees teleworked in fiscal 2015—a 70 percent jump over 2012 numbers—yet agencies are likely not making the most of telework programs across government. In a report ...

Sometimes people just won't do what you tell them to. Sometimes you have to lead by action. That's the idea the General Services Administration is getting around to accepting, The Washington Post ...

Yahoo and Best Buy could learn from the best telework example out there: the federal government. Late last month, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer announced that, as of June, the company’s ...

The private sector has shown us that telework — that is, working from our computers at home — has the potential for real and significant benefits and cost savings. In fact, private firms have produced ...

Telework, once a necessity during the pandemic, now stands at the forefront of a political battle. Republican members of Congress are castigating government leaders for insufficiently reining in the ...

According to the Society for Human Resources Management, 82 percent of "Fortune" magazine's 2011 "100 Best Companies to Work For" have programs that enable employees to work off-site, usually from ...

Many government officials, including those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have called on employers to allow their employees to work from home whenever possible to reduce the ...

Back in in 2018 – in the pre-pandemic world – about 5% of the U.S. workforce teleworked from home. That changed dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; by May 2020 that number had jumped ...

Many agencies have instituted policies to more strictly scrutinize telework as a reasonable accommodation for workers with disabilities since the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate.

One of the key public health responses to the global coronavirus pandemic has been social distancing – avoiding large groups of people in close quarters in order to inhibit the spread of COVID-19, the ...