The latest annual survey of federal employees, conducted by the Office of Personnel Management, finds that there are at least a dozen federal agencies where half or more of employees now telework to some extent.
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The battle between the public and private sectors to attract top talent often boils down to workplace intangibles such as work/life balance. And few efforts to improve that balance have attracted more attention within the federal government than telework.
Permitting more federal employees to skip the commute and work from home isn’t just an act of good will to attract and retain employees. It also boils down to smart economics. The General Services Administration estimates that if federal workers telecommuted at least one day per week, federal agencies could increase productivity by more than $2.3 billion annually. Agencies could also save potentially billions more on office space, electricity and supplies. Keep reading →
The General Services Administration launched its own town hall meeting online Monday to gather ideas from the public on how to improve federal websites.
On Day 1 of the daily dialog-a-thon at Usa.gov/webreform/dialogue, 50 people logged on to offer their ideas and suggestions for making government websites better to read and easier to understand. Keep reading →
While everyone is replaceable, experts agree the GSA has some digging to do in order to find a good one for Karl Krumbholz.
Now that the General Services Administration is losing its leading man of network services programs, agency officials are charged with finding someone to lead the programs while also fitting into the changing telecommunications world, according to a Federal Computer Week article. Keep reading →
Cloud computing, telework and data center consolidation–and a cross section of senior federal IT officials–took center stage at a conference yesterday to discuss ways to use information technology to reduce the total cost of government.
While nobody was willing to predict how the federal budget crunch was likely to impact specific government IT programs, most agreed that cloud computing, telework and data center consolidation are the three major initiatives that federal CIOs and managers must come to terms with in the coming budget cycle. Keep reading →
The Homeland Security Department is putting cloud computing policy into practice, as the department begins migrating all of its public-facing, non-sensitive Web sites onto platforms maintained entirely by commercial cloud providers.
In addition, DHS is laying the groundwork to move two other programs to the cloud:an employment verification system and a data center services program. Keep reading →
Government cloud computing proponents claimed a victory yesterday with the news that all 17,000 General Services Administration employees had successfully migrated to a cloud computing-based email system.
The $6.7 million project, begun last December and officially completed this week, converted GSA’s employees from an aging IBM Lotus Notes software platform to a new Collaborative Office Solutions version of Google Apps for Government, a cloud-based software platform that among other features, gives employees access to their email on virtually any approved device. Keep reading →