New OPM memo on RTO
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Anonymous
They won't. That's the point. The vast majority of individual situational telework requests won't seem important enough to elevate. So people will have to take leave or commute in every. Single. Time. |
Anonymous
| Summer is going to be really tough for parents with zero telework flexibility. For just one example preteens/teenagers. One cannot so easily just sign them up for 8-6 summer camps for the entire summer anymore. They have activities that some weeks end at 12-4 pm etc. We the past few years got really used to having some scheduling flexibility that could be maximized during the summer months. I am not quite ready to have them be full-on latchkey kids 5 days a week. |
Anonymous
That's not telework. |
Anonymous
You’d need an hour of telework from 8:30-9:30 to get to your 10 am offsite. I think the idea is that if you had to commute in you wouldn’t be able to get to your office and then get to the offsite and still work for that hour. Most offsite meetings don’t have space you can use to work for an hour before your meeting. |
Anonymous
I was the PP about the nickel-and-dime TW requests. Exactly this. I'm not going to schlep 30 min to my site, then 45 min to downtown or Rockville or wherever and back again. Don't even know if the schlep would count as work or commute. None of this is well thought out. I sometimes wonder whether the public thinks the Federal government is like the local DMV. |
Anonymous
Wait, why would I take leave to go to a work meeting? I wasn't talking about a personal appointment. I am often on interagency working groups that meet downtown or in the 'burbs. How would I count the time traveling from my agency to the meeting and back? |
Anonymous
That’s work time. It’s always been that. |
Anonymous
As work time, just as if you were on official travel. |
Anonymous
Oh. I was confused by your post because you wouldn't need to request situational TW to travel to and from a work meeting. That's just work. What you wouldn't be able to do would be travel to a meeting in the burbs near your house, then telework from there the rest of the day. Nope, even if it ends at 3:30 PM, drive back downtown so you can drive back home. |
Anonymous
But if DOGE is going to track your keystrokes or badge swipes, how are they going to monitor that? How does that go in your time sheet? I realize this sounds idiotic in a non-DOGE world, but if they are insisting on being anal retentive in tracking, how does this work? |
Anonymous
| You get an email from your supervisor that travel to a work meeting is still considered working. It’s always been that way. |
Anonymous
This just sounds like performative theater. If they really wanted efficiency, they could ask us grunts. I can come up with several suggestions, none of which involve Orwellian maneuvers. |
Anonymous
This makes me feel even better about how our agency head handled it. The first paragraph provided the required notification that we’d be following the PM, but the second paragraph briefly acknowledged this will be a major transition for some people and provided the EAP contact info. I’ve long known this agency head to be pretty cold and lacking in EI, so this was a really welcome surprise. |
Anonymous
My kids did camp all summer when I was working before the pandemic in a government position without telework. |
Anonymous
Want to add for my middle school age kids, I hired a college student to nanny all summer. They primarily went to our pool and hung out with friends. |