The private sector has shown us that telework — that is, working from our computers at home — has the potential for real and significant benefits and cost savings. In fact, private firms have produced ...

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 ...

Nearly half a million federal employees teleworked in fiscal 2015—a 70 percent jump over 2012 numbers—yet agencies are likely not making the most of telework programs across government. In a report ...

Yahoo and Best Buy could learn from the best telework example out there: the federal government. Late last month, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer announced that, as of June, the company’s ...

A new study from the Office of Personnel Management cites 13 cases of happy government telecommuters in the hopes of encouraging more managers and employees to initiate and participate in ...

Organizations are increasingly offering employees a variety of work-from-home options despite sometimes conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of telecommuting. A comprehensive new report ...

According to the Society for Human Resources Management, 82 percent of "Fortune" magazine's 2011 "100 Best Companies to Work For" have programs that enable employees to work off-site, usually from ...

Many government officials, including those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have called on employers to allow their employees to work from home whenever possible to reduce the ...

When it comes to making employers happy, happy employees are right up there with high-paying customers and a successful business. And what employer wouldn’t be happy to be able to make employees more ...

One of the key public health responses to the global coronavirus pandemic has been social distancing – avoiding large groups of people in close quarters in order to inhibit the spread of COVID-19, the ...

Many agencies have instituted policies to more strictly scrutinize telework as a reasonable accommodation for workers with disabilities since the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate.