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[quote=Anonymous]Also a fed and the flexibility really does vary from agency to agency and even supervisor to supervisor.

At my old agency, if I had wanted to work 6:30a-3p, it would not have been a problem. AWS and 1-2 days of weekly telework would have also been fine. I had my own office so pumping would have been a breeze there.

At my new agency, pushing back my schedule even by half an hour makes people a bit uneasy. Teleworking on snow days is okay, but regularly is frowned upon. However, there's a fantastic lactation room, no one gives me a hard time about needing to pump 3xday, and there's a childcare subsidy program. The EAP can also help you identify childcare - both regular and back up. So overall, I think my workplace is very family friendly. Just not in the typical ways you might expect for a federal agency.

Having a proper maternity leave policy would be nice, but the fact that we get 13 paid sick days a year that never expire is pretty unusual and I think feds often take that for granted, not realizing that the uncapped sick leave accrual that never expires is kind of a big deal. [/quote]

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