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 ...

Hello. This is Masayuki, a side-hustling Labor and Social Security Attorney.More and more companies are shifting from telework back to office-based work. Amazon, a major US IT company, required its ...

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 ...

Telework can be a strong incentive tool for federal agencies looking to retain employees amid staff shortages in government offices, according to an annual report by the Office of Personnel Management ...

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 ...

Federal agencies are not consistently evaluating the impact of telework on their ability to provide services, said the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a new report issued on Nov. 22. The ...

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 ...

Government agencies rarely utilize the opportunity to learn without being force-fed. In the case of telework for federal employees, they are true to form. According to White House chief of staff Jeff ...

At the end of January, the Trump administration issued a presidential memorandum requiring all departments and agencies in the executive branch to terminate remote work arrangements and require ...

All federal agencies must establish a telework policy and notify employees of their eligibility to participate in the benefit by June 7, according to new guidance from the Office of Personnel ...