Telework Week could draw as many as 50,000 stay-at-home workers

Today begins Telework Week where federal employees are being encouraged to work from alternative sites.

Today begins Telework Week where federal employees are being encouraged to work from alternative sites.

About 50,000 federal workers say they will take part.

Gil Gordon is a telework expert and owner of Gil Gordon and Associates, which advises public and private sector organizations on telework. He sees that 50,000 as both a lot and not enough in terms of the overall percentage of federal employees teleworking.

“It’s a lot in that the number is a good healthy number,” Gordon told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin. “But in terms of a percentage of the federal workforce, of course, it’s relatively small.”

Even so, Gordon says the number of federal workers teleworking continues to grow. He anticipates a day when the terms “teleworking” and “telecommuting” will no longer exist, as telework becomes an everyday part of the way government does its job.

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