Is telework training a solution in search of a problem? Last week I noted that the recent Kinetic Workplace survey found firms providing telework training increased 15% from 2001 to 2002. Here, we’ll ...

Managers involved in the massive Patent and Trademark Office telework program will receive training from a professional services firm, in an attempt to overcome cultural barriers to the alternate work ...

Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) sponsored the Telework Enhancement Act, which was signed into law last year. The law requires each agency to create telework policies, determine employee eligibility, and ...

Security, bandwidth, and training issues are challenges for any agency starting or expanding a telework program. USPTO has to move massive patent application and trademark agreement documents back and ...

Telework only will be successful and widely adopted across the government when agencies and managers establish clear goals for what the practice can do for them and what teleworkers are expected to ...

You start a new job, report your first day of work, and find out employees from another organization down the hallway are rarely around because they telework. "Telework?" you ask. "How does that work?

Telework training has been around forever; but only now are we seeing the first telework certificate program. Offered by Washington State University and the Telework Collaborative, the new online ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

This week, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission (CSC) approved a motion to extend the Model Telework Pilot Program for state employees until June 30, 2024. The program, established in April 2022, ...

FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee found that prolonged pandemic-era telework has been "detrimental" to government agencies and new employee training, and it laid out in a new report proposed ...

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would require federal agencies to maximize telework for the rest of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pandemic Federal Telework Act comes in ...