OPM’s latest telework report highlights productivity gains The annual telework report covers fiscal 2022, though officials promised that recent policy changes will improve data collection and ...

The debate around federal telework is not just about productivity, though; it’s also about politics and economics. Legislators like Manchin have linked the return-to-office with economic ...

A new study has found that public sector employees working remotely recorded a 12% increase in productivity compared to when they were in the office, challenging the assumption that physical presen… ...

Telework has been shown to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve employee satisfaction, making it a valuable tool for the federal workforce, despite Republican claims that it wastes ...

Almost 3% of the American workforce, or 3.9 million people, telecommutes at least half of the time, a 115% increase from the 1.8 million who did so in 2005.Forty-three percent of employees say ...

This 22 percent increase in concentrated work time for remote employees underscores how remote work, free from the typical office distractions of impromptu meetings and ambient noise, offers a ...

When Hewlett-Packard Co.’s CIO Randall Mott pulled IT teleworkers back to the office in 2006, he said he was trying to foster better teamwork internally. HP was in the midst of a major IT ...

"Responsible telework opportunities meet the expectations and needs of our changing workforce and can enhance productivity and boost employee morale," said Julia Sibilla, Fort Sill Garrison deputy ...

Some first-time teleworkers taking part in Telework Week say they were pleased with the experience. (Stock image) Lisa Krall, a resource soil scientist at the Agriculture Department, decided to ...

Federal employees are becoming more mobile, but government agencies are missing opportunities to improve employees' productivity when they're out of the office, concludes new research from the ...

Like most federal agencies in March 2020, the Defense Department shifted to telework for its workforce due to the global novel coronavirus pandemic. Those who were able were told to work remotely ...

Some 53,000 of the Social Security Administration's employees are working from home. And the agency's backlog of pending cases has fallen by 11% since March 23.