How is your federal agency implementing telework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is telework at financial regulators besides sec? Is CFTC the same as sec of no telework?

No recurring telework. An occasional day might be approved if there’s a legitimate need (deadline) that requires you to work versus taking leave. Lots of hoops to jump through and requires justification and supervisory approval. A very drastic change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is telework at financial regulators besides sec? Is CFTC the same as sec of no telework?

Like everything else at the CFTC, the telework policy is purposefully opaque in order to make staff scared and give the agency the ability to fire at will and scare staff from speaking up. Much like the absurd “insider threat” policy they just rolled out that treats staff like criminals and gives the Commission the ability to surveil staff outside of the office and on social media. This is all a continuation of the retailiatory culture created by Pham with her illegal terminations and nonsensical pronouncements.

All of this while the prediction markets continue to expose themselves as deeply problematic - Selig focuses on punishing staff in advance and ensuring nobody ever teleworks for a second more than strictly necessary. meanwhile the CFTC enforcement and compliance staff is gutted, nothing has been done to actually address prediction market insider trading, and major unrepaired holes in the law and regulations has made the CFTC even more useless than it already was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is telework at financial regulators besides sec? Is CFTC the same as sec of no telework?

Like everything else at the CFTC, the telework policy is purposefully opaque in order to make staff scared and give the agency the ability to fire at will and scare staff from speaking up. Much like the absurd “insider threat” policy they just rolled out that treats staff like criminals and gives the Commission the ability to surveil staff outside of the office and on social media. This is all a continuation of the retailiatory culture created by Pham with her illegal terminations and nonsensical pronouncements.

All of this while the prediction markets continue to expose themselves as deeply problematic - Selig focuses on punishing staff in advance and ensuring nobody ever teleworks for a second more than strictly necessary. meanwhile the CFTC enforcement and compliance staff is gutted, nothing has been done to actually address prediction market insider trading, and major unrepaired holes in the law and regulations has made the CFTC even more useless than it already was.

Sounds like Selig learned too much from PA’s handbook: focus on the wrong things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fed office is in a leased space and always use gov badges to enter. We have been told that Kastle cards are being implemented next week. Guess they want to track people.

? How do Kastle cards do anything government badges don't?

My office is in leased space and we need Kastle cards to enter the building, then government badges to enter our office space. Management is tracking the PIV cards, not the Kastle cards

[Anonymous]

By forcing the rest of us to never do even half a day of situational telework because certain positions, by the nature of the work, are in the field half the time, and so our occupancy numbers look terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My fed office is in a leased space and always use gov badges to enter. We have been told that Kastle cards are being implemented next week. Guess they want to track people.

? How do Kastle cards do anything government badges don't?

My office is in leased space and we need Kastle cards to enter the building, then government badges to enter our office space. Management is tracking the PIV cards, not the Kastle cards

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AFAIK, Kastle cards are keyed to the building/office, not the employee, but PIV cards are already keyed to the individual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My fed office is in a leased space and always use gov badges to enter. We have been told that Kastle cards are being implemented next week. Guess they want to track people.

? How do Kastle cards do anything government badges don't?

My office is in leased space and we need Kastle cards to enter the building, then government badges to enter our office space. Management is tracking the PIV cards, not the Kastle cards

+1
AFAIK, Kastle cards are keyed to the building/office, not the employee, but PIV cards are already keyed to the individual.

It has to also be keyed to the individual. Surely private companies that use Kastle cards have a way to cut off access to the building for terminated employees that dont return their swipe cards.

[Anonymous]

5 days a month--no approval needed. Plus everyone can telework bar a pressing business need the last business day before a holiday (this Friday, for example).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 days a month--no approval needed. Plus everyone can telework bar a pressing business need the last business day before a holiday (this Friday, for example).

Which agency?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are building a dashboard at our agency so senior management can see when badge swipes do not match time sheets. That said, they have apparently been building it for over a year. I think a big complicating issue is that we have regional offices all over the country with different systems. I have employees in multiple locations around the country and I cannot physically monitor them.

Apparently OIGs across government are flagging this as potential avenue for investigating timecard fraud this year and into next year.

This sounds like the SEC. Atkins really has his priorities straight.

Is that really happening at the SEC?

https://www.sec.gov/files/sec-oig-inv-26-005.pdf

Yes there are telework dashboards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By forcing the rest of us to never do even half a day of situational telework because certain positions, by the nature of the work, are in the field half the time, and so our occupancy numbers look terrible.

That’s how the justify selling gov real estate to Trump’s friends.

[Anonymous]

Is that really happening at the SEC?

https://www.sec.gov/files/sec-oig-inv-26-005.pdf

Yes there are telework dashboards.

what does your link have to do with dashboards? also theres a huge difference between teleworking too much and stealing time by golfing...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you code your time as in-office but you are teleworking, that isn't time card fraud per se but you are lying when you code your time and can be subject to disciplinary action. I think EPA is very generous compared to other agencies with the 24 hours of leave every 2 pay periods and I am lucky to have that!

You earn 3 days of vacation every month at EPA? Seven weeks of vacation a year?

Sorry, meant to say 24 hours of episodic TW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Is that really happening at the SEC?

https://www.sec.gov/files/sec-oig-inv-26-005.pdf

Yes there are telework dashboards.

what does your link have to do with dashboards? also theres a huge difference between teleworking too much and stealing time by golfing...

Agreed. These guys committed fraud. What does this have to do with telework and dashboards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 days a month--no approval needed. Plus everyone can telework bar a pressing business need the last business day before a holiday (this Friday, for example).

Pretty sure I know which agency is, and this PP is in a division that has implemented the telework policy in the most employee-friendly way possible. Other divisions are nowhere close to this.