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- Senators push Tangherlini for assurances GSA is improving
- As VA works to eliminate one backlog, one more might emerge
- Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses
- Furlough song: Laugh or you'll cry
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- NSA leak case gives vendors reason to reevaluate personnel
- Does security clearance process need a makeover?
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
- NASA engineer, 29, recognized for improving aeronautical testing
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
- Wednesday federal headlines - June 19, 2013
Teleworking: Trust But Verify?
If Congress has its way you soon may be telecommuting at least one day a week. So what's the timetable and how's it supposed to work? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has some of the answers!
Teleworking & Two-Way Wrist Radios
What does teleworking in government have to do with those two-way wrist radios of the 1950s? More than you think according to Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
Teleworking: What Are Your Odds?
Could the people in your office be trusted to get the job done if they were allowed to work from home? Would stepped up teleworking boost productivity and reduce traffic, or simply result in more daytime TV watchers? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says today's a red letter day for wannabeteleworkers.
More feds will telework soon
This week, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey talks with Jessica Klement of the Federal Managers Association about why she feels telework is here to stay, no matter how Congress votes late Wednesday.
Round two for telework bill
Having failed to gain passage in late May, Maryland Congressman John Sarbanes is predicting success this time for his bill to expand teleworking in the federal government. Sarbanes' bill could be considered by the full House as early as Wednesday.
At-home Agent: telework on vitamins
The differences between federal workers and the private sector can be seen in the way they look at telework.
Manager buy-in remains the biggest telework challenge
Experts say nothing will matter unless agency managers buy-in to the idea that telework is an operational advantage.
OPM study on workplace flexibility moves forward
OPM's new study is focused on workplace flexibility, but what are they hoping to learn?
Manager buy-in remains the biggest telework challenge
The next challenge for supporters of teleworking in the government has nothing to do with laptops, laws or cybersecurity. Instead, experts say that challenge will be to convince the recalcitrant manager in the office down the hall, who doesn't like the idea.
Battening down the telework hatches
In case of emergency, do you know what your telework options are? OPM says NOW is the time to find out.
Telework needs work
A new report from the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton outlines the importance of telework, and what the federal government can do to increase the amount of feds to telecommute. We get details from Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Abe Zwany.
VA ready to kick the virtual tires
Veterans Affairs is looking for a virtual call center prototype.
Once Upon a Time in Teleworkland
Telework's beginning as an emergency response has a happy ending.
CDC honored for its healthy telework program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention take home a Tele-Vision Award.
Better balance comes with telework
Not surprising: Telecommuters balance work and family life better than office workers. Surprising: Even while sometimes squeezing in a couple extra days' worth of work each week.
Voinovich: hiring reforms will take an act of law
Congress remains serious about federal hiring reform, and about telework. Senator George Voinovich weighs in with the legislative outlook.
Navy focuses on family matters
Vice Admiral Mark Ferguson explains how work-life balance is making the difference in retention for the Navy.
Homespun advice for the home office teleworker
A lot goes in to setting up an effective home office.
Static cleared over the telework bill
The Senate approves a bill designed to expand telework in the federal government. The Telework Enhancement Act would create an assumption in agencies that employees are eligible to telework. We get an update from American Banker's Jodi Schneider.
How to set up a successful home office
We talk with home office guru Cecelia Jernegan.
