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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m a fed with teenagers and I don’t begrudge younger parents flexibility but I think the cost of this is often to their coworkers who are doing their work while they are at afternoon ballet class, or kind of paying attention on a work call while driving. The rest of us would be better off if you were fully doing your job, which is much harder to manage and track remotely. I can’t stand Trump and am dreading most of the administration, except for the scaling back of telework. My coworkers and I are all for it.

If people are doing work while at a ballet class or driving, that's clearly not ok (unless they have permission- though not while driving!) and should be dealt with on an individual basis. I agree.[/quote]

I agree as well, but have not ever experienced anyone at my agency doing anything like this.  We have a very high workload, and it would be noticeable quickly.[/quote]

You’ve never noticed anyone only being available from 9-3 and then sending an email at 9 pm to signal that they were working? [/quote].

New poster - no, people in our office don’t do that - as the other PP says, maybe a 10 minute school pickup or similar but we can’t make up hours at night we didn’t work during the day. [/quote]

I’m a fed who works at home. My kids have no school this week. I dropped them at camps at 9/9:30 and was online at 10. At 3 I w picked them up and stopped and ran an errand. I ran this by my boss ahead of time and took 3 hours of annual leave today. Based on child care I could find, if I didn’t work from home I would have needed a full 8 hours of leave today. Instead I was able to move our project forward. [/quote]

You were being honest and took leave.  I don’t know anyone who would take those three hours of leave.  They would just say they worked a full day from home.[/quote]

You can't be away from your desk for hours without anyone noticing. We use Teams and people do look for you. [/quote]

Are federal employees not allowed to have teams on their phone? [/quote]

No use of personal electronics for security reasons.  Not sure if it is the same everywhere but I can not use my personal phone for anything work related except in an emergency.  Remember Hillary and the emails..we still live with heh after effects.[/quote]

That's why most Feds carry 2 phones.  Yes, I have Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, a VPN and Microsoft Office on my work phone.  I can work from anywhere.  Although for stuff other than meetings and email, it's extremely tedious.[/quote]

Chuckling at the idea of my office giving us all phones.  No..we just have to be working with our laptops.[/quote]

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