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[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]

DP, but most people at my agency (myself included) do not have agency phones. We are also not allowed to work anywhere accept our alternate duty station and they do monitor IP addresses. [b]I am literally tethered to my lap top. It would immediately apparent if I or anyone in a similar position was MIA for a while, especially on any sort of routine basis[/b].[/quote]

Same. We’re not supposed to even use public WiFi. I guess other agencies have different rules. [/quote]

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