Category: telework

With the Pandemic Over, House Panel Seeks Answers on Federal Agency Backlogs

June 21, 2023
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Some may consider it fitting, if not desirable, that a House subcommittee hearing focused on the reasons that federal government agencies, in a post-pandemic America, are still running behind and continuing to be tardy in delivering services started about a half hour late.   But the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Government Operations…

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House Advances Bill Demanding Federal Workers Return to Undermanned Offices

February 2, 2023
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Less than a quarter of United States federal employees worked remotely to varying degrees in 2019, with about three percent doing so full-time. During the height of the pandemic in late-2020, the percentage of federal remote workers tripled to as much as 75 percent. Three years later, however, even with the COVID-19 emergency long-subsided, nearly…

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House Oversight Committee Probes GAS Administrator Over Telework Allegations

January 17, 2023
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is seeking answers from a Biden administration official for allegedly spending most of her work hours somewhere else, not in her Washington office. It was one of several investigative moves the panel is pushing forward after GOP took control of the House, pledging tougher oversight of the…

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Remote, Telework, or Hybrid: How About a Raise Just for Showing Up?

January 12, 2023
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Commentary Is the option of working from home for some employees coming to an end? It depends on who you ask. Last week, Forbes ran an article titled, “Is remote work dying a fast death?” while only 10 days earlier, the Los Angeles Times had declared, “Why the trend toward remote work isn’t going to…

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