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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People won't be taking their laptops home if TW disappears, so no.[/quote]

But then you’ll just end up burning leave. Some people are ok with that and some people have no options due to childcare issues. But not everyone is going to leave their laptops at work and waste a day of leave. [/quote]

DP but at my agency in order to telework you have to have a telework agreement. If telework goes away then there is no telework agreement meaning people will not have their homes set up with an office.

Before telework we got snow days off, so I would imagine it would revert to that. I mean I wouldn’t put it past DOGE to try to have it both ways, but I don’t think it would work because of OPM determining work statuses. If work can’t be done at home on a non-snow day because it must be done in an office chair to be productive, then how would snow on the ground magically make teleworking more productive? [/quote]

But there’s no guarantee that going forward you’d get pay. You could end up being charged with leave if you don’t show up. Regardless everything is speculation and these threads are just another way people are expressing their outrage at RTO. [/quote]

The changes that would be necessary to not pay staff during an office closure are extremely unlikely to ever pass. It's much more likely they'd simply refuse to close the offices, personnel safety be damned. And OPM can do that as they choose, already, without DOGE.

These threads are just stirring the pot. [/quote]

I’m sure some of them would love to take that approach but I’m assuming that one of the reasons feds close or go to telework is that other agencies, including first responders, ask them to in these kinds of weather events. It’s not good if police, ambulances, fire have to respond all over to accidents on icy roads because feds weren’t told to work at home (and a lot of private employers follow feds) so this is one area where I don’t really see much changing in the future.

I’m sure that even if regular telework is abolished situational agreements would be required so people work at home in snow days and other similar events.[/quote]

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