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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be difficult for me to work from home more than one or two days a week because my job (gov attorney) is very paper-centric. Many of our files are not electronic, and even if they were, we'd still have to cite to the official paper file with its tabs, page numbers, and other info that doesn't get transferred when the file is scanned. I can't haul home 6 or 7 files every day, at least not on the metro. Maybe if I drove I could do it, but I don't. And to take a week's worth of files home would be insane. Plus, I really like the office atmosphere and comparing notes with my colleagues -- probably because so much of what we do is solitary. I do like the flexible hours though. We have to do 80 hours in a 2-week period, but when we do them is largely up to us. The one thing I wish we had was the ability to split our time -- 6 hours at work and 2 hours at home in the same day, for example. We can telework, but it's an all or nothing proposition -- an entire day in the office or an entire day at home. No splitting. [/quote]

Former Fed manager here again.

Your bosses do not understand what Episodic Telework is.  It certainly permits a split day like that for ad hoc (not "regular") telework days.  If you're in a bargaining unit, get in touch with your union reps, some of the idiotic managers in govt. won't follow the rules unless they are forced to.[/quote]

I meant it would be nice to be able to split time for regular telework. They let us do it for ad hoc days, but I could see wanting to split it on a regular basis once I have kids -- to be able to leave at 4 pm and do another 2 hours in the evening after the kids are in bed. I could have done this if I'd stayed at my law firm, but my agency doesn't permit it. And, sadly, I am one of the few not in the bargaining unit b/c I do work for management. Ah well. It's still a great gig.[/quote]

Do you have a minimum number of days per week you need to be in the office? I'm wondering if you can't split it to prevent workers from working their schedule so that they complete most of their work hours one week and then work from home the next week by splitting the telework hours into multiple days.[/quote]

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