During the government shutdown, SSA employees who request a day of telework or a day of leave are instead often “met with AWOL notices,” a federal union says.

Anew survey indicates the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is tightening the noose on the federal government’s mid-level managers adverse to telework. A new survey indicates the U.S. Office of ...

Under heavy pressure from Republicans in Congress, the Biden administration has been pressing federal agencies to get their staff back to the office. However, this pressure stands at odds with the ...

OPM Director Rob Shriver testifies during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on May 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Amid a concerted push on Capitol Hill to get federal workers back ...

It would never have gone down this way in the private sector. Two departments charged with the same task? But when federal agencies look for guidance on implementing telework, they have two ...

Last week, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Rob Schriver made a strong case for the continuation of remote work ...

GSA’s notice states multiple times that furloughed employees are guaranteed back pay once the shutdown ends. All furloughed ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa a response to an August 2023 request for a report on the effects of telework on the federal government, showing it ...

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 ...

The Office of Personnel Management needs to improve its annual agency telework report to Congress, according to the Government Accountability Office. The Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 mandates that ...

Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Wednesday announced a broad new telework plan for employees, in part to deal with growing concern over the spread of swine flu in the United ...

More on this later in a full story, but I'm just back from OPM Director John Berry's press conference on Capitol Hill, at which he announced that he's essentially going to implement the provisions of ...