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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, good for her! Support your coworker in her decision to choose her most productive workplace. Or her maternity leave. Both. She has a right to work from home. [/quote]

Lol yes SHE has a right to work from home, all the other poor shmucks must haul into the office to get paid. I don't work at the FDA - no dog in this fight. This problem is about to take care of itself. There's no way she's not on HR's radar already bc what supervisor would be ok certifying this timesheet. In groups where this is the de facto arrangement for everyone, ok fine. But one person doing this will the rest don't is going to stand out.[/quote]

Exactly. If she's taking DC locality pay and living somewhere else she will be busted eventually.  My agency did office checks and busted all the people who claimed DC pay but never came to the office, They have to repay the locality pay they received.[/quote]

Do they actually check for this - taking DC locality and living half way across the country? How? Seems like it'd be a low yield type of thing esp now bc aren't most people back in the area? Or is this super simple like checking IP addresses on a telework day or whatever - which this woman is taking many of.[/quote]

They can just go to your desk or office every day and document that you were never at the office for a whole pay period.  Problem solved.[/quote]

Yep that's the low tech way to do it. Or just pull badges. Not FDA but my agency got all new badge readers days into RTO. We assume they are to be able to track and pull badges more effectively as they aren't the clunky old readers from the 90s - though my group did fire someone 10ish yrs ago based on the clunky old badge reader data. Now with new readers that data may even download weekly or whatever. Pretty hard to say you're in the office as you're supposed to be when your name NEVER comes up on the badge entry/exit.[/quote]

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