The provincial move to embrace remote work was in contrast to the federal government’s December directive that employees would be required to work in a office at least two to three days a week as of March 31. Julie MacArthur, associate professor in the school of business at R...
Organizations of all sizes in the public and private sectors are reopening their workplaces or thinking about how to do that. The federal government has some unique issues to deal with as it does so. That’s the subject ofMcKinsey on Governmentthis week with Megan McConnell, a partner with ...
"In his remarks from Mar-a-Lago, Trump appeared to be referencing an agreement reached by the Social Security Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees earlier this month. The deal keeps in place the agency's current telework policy until October 2029.Under the plan, em...
“While remote work tends to increase individual productivity, in-person work seems to drive collective or collaborative productivity. As a result, leaders in the private sector and government have been calling for more in-person interaction in offices,” said J.P. Gownder, a vice president and...
“We support telework where it delivers for both the taxpayers and the workers who serve them,” Kelley said. “Telework and remote work are tools that have helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency, maintain continuity of operations, and increase disaster preparedness. These...
There’s not a lot of disagreement about how to bring on more younger employees to work for the federal government, according to Amante. “When you talk to the chief human capital officers across government, there's no resistance that these things need to...
A survey conducted by our Government team at the Center for Advanced Hindsight contributed to a major policy change that will impact more than 600,000 public employees of the Brazilian Federal Government. The change is being recognized as a step to modernize people manag...
How remote and hybrid work changed the office "Workers seem to know what they want," Pollak said. "They are extremely, extremely bullish on remote work." About 63% of job seekers say they'd prefer remote work — a number that has stayed remarkably stable throughout 2022, said Pollak, wh...
The agency said that personnel who are eligible to work remotely spent 61% of regular working hours in the office. Of the more than 2 million civilian government workers, 228,000, or 10%, were in remote positions where they were not expected to work in-person on a regular ba...
Ernst (R-Iowa), the head of the caucus, is sharing a 60-page report, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, in the group's meeting on Thursday, focused on reforming telework and remote work policies and shedding unused or underused government offices. “The American people g...