Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich.,?chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, introduced bipartisan legislation today to increase transparency and oversight of Federal telework policies. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is making a change in how it addresses remote work and telework by adding new preconditions – some focusing on data classification levels – outlined in an updated telework policy that marks the Pentagon’s first formal update to the policy since 2012. […]

Members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are requesting additional documents and information from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding Federal agencies’ telework and remote policies. […]

The Department of the Interior (DoI) has seen an increase in overall workplace satisfaction and recruitment and retention as a result of expanded telework flexibilities, a top DoI official told members of Congress on Thursday. […]

Democratic and Republican members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee clashed on Wednesday over whether or not current telework policies are helping Federal agencies to be more productive. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop benchmarks to measure Federal office building use and get rid of unneeded space, especially with recent increases in telework. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisory Council is calling on the agency to invest in technology that supports remote work, according to a new report by the panel’s workforce subcommittee. […]

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Subcommittee held a hearing Thursday probing into Federal agency telework and productivity rates, and heard mostly upbeat stories from agency leaders on how pandemic-era telework policies benefited their operations. […]

Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are keeping up their pressure on the White House for data on Federal employees’ work from home habits, and on policy changes being pursued by the Biden administration that will return more Feds to their traditional office locations. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been working to reinvent the workforce of the future by making it more inclusive, agile and engaged, and equipped with the right skills. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a deep dive into the effects of telework – also known as remote work or “work from home” – and found that while it generally has a positive effect on productivity and performance, the long-term effects of telework remain unknown. […]

Members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are once again asking Federal agencies to share data on how many of their employees are teleworking, after not receiving a response to their initial request for that data in May. […]

Employees at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will be required to work some days in the office starting next month. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it will bring employees into the office more regularly this fall, setting a new minimum requirement for in-person work. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) this week announced that it will remove the COVID-19 governmentwide operating status on May 15 – meaning the pandemic will no longer drive how and where Federal employees work. […]

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee plans to investigate how many Federal employees are teleworking, following last week’s memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that asked agencies to increase the amount of in-person work at Federal offices, while also balancing telework as an important retention tool. […]

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) asked Federal agencies on Thursday to increase the amount of in-person work at Federal offices, while also balancing telework as an important retention tool. […]

Republican members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology called upon NASA last week to answer some questions about what they see as the agency’s high telework rate. […]

U.S. Army officials said this week that they are relying on bring-your-own-device (BYOD) technologies to connect service members and provide secure access to government data, with a focus on Army Reserve and National Guard units that have the most geographically dispersed and complex IT user population across the Federal government. […]

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the Federal government to make a lot of fast changes that helped agencies to build a more resilient government, according to deputy secretaries at the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Homeland Security (DHS). […]

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing this week to review the efficiency of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the debate largely revolved around the Federal agency’s ability to fulfill its mission while allowing its employees to telework. […]

Bob Westbrooks, who retired earlier this year as executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), delivered a wholehearted endorsement on Feb. 9 of the enduring value of wide-scale telework practices that the Federal government turned to in response to the coronavirus pandemic. […]

With Federal government agencies approaching the three-year anniversary of the turn to widespread telework in March 2020, a senior official at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) explained this week that cyber hygiene measures for the remote workforce remain as important as ever in securing an expanded attack surface. […]

The House voted 221–206 on Feb. 1 to approve legislation that would roll back Federal agency telework policies to their year-end 2019 levels, and require agencies to justify any future changes in telework policies through reporting to Congress. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) cut the ribbon on the agency’s first Workplace Innovation Lab, officially opening the office space of the future to Federal employees on Jan. 25. […]

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., introduced legislation on Jan. 11 that would roll back Federal agency telework policies to their year-end 2019 levels, and require agencies to justify any future changes in telework policies through reporting to Congress. […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a July 20 memo to agencies that instructs them to consider telework and remote work, as well as the status of online collaboration tools when submitting their office workspace plans. […]

Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and John Sarbanes, D-Md. – both of whom represent districts with large Federal employee populations – have reintroduced legislation that the members of Congress said will “strengthen and expand the federal government’s telework programs by capitalizing on lessons learned” during the coronavirus pandemic when many Federal agencies had most employees working from remote locations. […]

The General Services Administration’s five-year strategic plan published on March 31 weaves the developing issues of telework, cybersecurity, IT-driven citizen service improvements, and adoption of further acquisition technologies throughout much of the agency’s wide-ranging work plans for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached an agreement with the union representing agency employees for policies governing the return of employees to traditional offices in what amounts to a larger hybrid work-location approach. […]