“Work is what we do, not where we are,” declares the latest Mobility and Telework Policy to come out of the General Services Administration.

The new policy, released Oct. 31, 2011, outlines and defines a full range of scenarios on when and how employees may work remotely and on the go.

“With this policy, GSA is preparing itself to model, consult, and guide itself and the entire Federal government on essential workplace and workforce transformation.”

GSA says it “recognizes mobility as an overarching term describing the ability of employees, enabled by the robustness of information technology and progressive workplace policies, to perform work both within and outside the agency worksite as defined in this policy.

“It includes a range of separate and distinct modes of work, including:

• Alternative Officing (desk sharing, hoteling, hot desking)
• Conference attendance
• Mobile work (site audits, client visits, site inspections, etc.)
• Satellite work
• Telework
• Training
• Emergency Situations
• Travel
• Virtual and distributed work.