Workforce

GovExec Daily: The Patent and Trademark Office's Approach to Hybrid Work

PTO's Telework Program Office Director Danette Campbell spoke to GovExec about the successes of her agency's telework approach.

Workforce

OPM Wants to See More Telework, Remote Work and ‘Maxiflex’ Schedules Post-COVID

Guidance published late last week promotes telework and other flexibilities as retention and recruitment tools.

Workforce

Back to Work? Here's How to Help Your Dog Cope

Millions of people returning to the workplace means millions of dogs left home alone. "This is something that's a big deal for a dog..."

Workforce

GovExec Daily: OPM's Role in This Stage of the Pandemic

Katherine McIntire Peters talks to Office of Personnel Management's Rob Shriver about the future of the civil service.

Oversight

GAO: Coast Guard Can Do More to Monitor Telework Use

Early in the pandemic, the service suffered from inadequate bandwidth and a laptop shortage, although those issues were alleviated by summer 2020.

Pay & Benefits

GPO To Offer Full-Time Telework After COVID

Around one-third of the agency’s 1,500 employees will be able to work entirely remotely, and officials said some will be able to move out of the Washington, D.C., area.

Workforce

GovExec Daily: Federal In-Person Office Policies and the 'Honor System'

Federal employment attorney Stephanie Rapp-Tully joins the show to discuss vaccination proof and agency's – and feds' – risks.

Workforce

House Spending Bill Pushes Social Security to Reverse Trump-era Workforce Changes

Language accompanying the bill orders a report by the end of 2021 on telework, and urges the agency to reverse actions that undercut the independence of administrative law judges.

Oversight

GovExec Daily: How Effective Are Feds During 'Maximum Telework?'

Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss Rep. Jody Hice's request for information on the pandemic's effect on mission delivery.

Management

Appeals Court Overrules FLRA on Telework Negotiability

A federal circuit court judge said a Federal Labor Relations Authority ruling improperly ignored provisions preserving management rights to deny telework requests.

Workforce

Top Republican Calls for IG Investigations Into Feds’ Telework Productivity During Pandemic

An oversight subcommittee ranking member, Jody Hice, blasted the White House for seeking a permanent increase in federal remote work without first seeking more data about the impact on agency missions.

Management

Biden Administration to Lift Capacity Caps at Federal Worksites

Agencies may set their own limits on how many federal employees can return to the office beginning next month, and in the meantime, the federal government will maintain its maximum telework posture.

Management

Biden Ends Trend of Benefit-Cutting Budgets, But New Federal Workforce Initiatives Are Still Being Developed

Most of the workforce provisions outlined in the president’s first budget submission are vague references to policies that will be part of the forthcoming president's management agenda.

Workforce

Employees Are Feeling Burned Over Broken Work-From-Home Promises and Corporate Culture ‘BS’ as Employers Try to Bring Them Back to the Office

A divide is growing between workers and management over the return to the office and other issues.

Management

Republicans Press Biden to Bring Federal Employees Back to Their Offices Immediately

The administration has so far maintained its governmentwide 25% maximum capacity policy for federal buildings.

Workforce

Should You Bring Employees Back to the Office?

Research shows that people prefer to minimize their time in the office because most work cultures are not healthy or engaging.

Workforce

GovExec Daily: Dealing With the Complex Changes Brought on by Telework

Dr. John Kotter joins the show to discuss how flexibility will be key to agencies as employees come back to offices.

Workforce

GovExec Daily: Telework and Federal Labor-Management Relations

Robert M. Tobias joins the show to discuss how the remote work experience could provide a path forward for negotiations.