Posted on 12/10/2010 6:36:20 AM PST by Poundstone
HR 1722 was signed into law by President Obama Thursday afternoon. Also known as the Telework Enhancement Act, the bill aims to increase the work-at-home opportunities for federal employees.
The bill instructs federal agencies to come up with better defined policies to promote telework. Some of its key features are that it requires each agency head to:
* Establish a policy under which eligible agency employees may be authorized to telework * Determine employee eligibility to participate in telework * Notify all employees of their eligibility to telework
(Excerpt) Read more at fedsmith.com ...
Doing my thesis on teleworking in health care. This is a good article for a source. Thank you!
Now, instead of taking up space at high-paying, meaningless, and non-productive "jobs" at offices, they can just stay home and do nothing.
Call me cynical, but bureaucrats ‘working’ from home doesn’t inspire confidence. That is, I can only imagine them working even more slowly and taking more breaks if nobody is watching.
What’s good about such options in the private sector is that they are usually offered at the discretion of direct managers, who know which employees can be trusted with it.
Putting Section 8, ACORN activists on the federal payroll, while they sit at home and do nothing.
Spreading the wealth—
I’m a senior manager and I telecommute 5 days a week. I usually start at 0600 and stop around 1800.
Work is what you do not where you do it. That said, it requires a designated work area, home office, discipline and a good manager to ensure associate accountability and that deliverables are met.
Work should be judged by deliverables not hours.
That said, my experience with government workers does not lead me to believe that this will result in normal or higher productivity.
NOTE: I’m currently on a con-call where I’m not presently needed so I paused to FReep. It’s called multitasking.
This encourages the lazy in our feral government to become even more lazy with virtually no direct oversight.
to become even more lazy with virtually no direct oversight.
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Just saw in a Fredericksburg VA newspaper that 3 telecommute centers will be defunded by GSA after first of next year.
In the article, the biggest gripe was they couldn’t work at home because of distractions such as laundry, kids (one wife ran a day care center from home)and securing proper internet connections etc....
EXACTLY
I have long advocated requiring every government worker whose job enables him to telecommute to do so.
The next step it to outsource their jobs to India.
The unions and government has always had of people on the payroll who didn’t work (usu. corruption and kickbacks). These people would have to show up occasionally to collect their checks or if there were time card audits. Now they can jam millions into these “Non-Jobs” and say they are working from home.
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