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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are missing the point: You manage someone. You have a policy for a benefit, aka privilege. Employee is most likely abusing said privilege, and at best is in clear violation of the policy. Whether the kid can "watch himself" (doubtful!) all day is actually beside the point. Now if you telework 100% of the time as a requirement of the job etc. that's a different story.

OP focus on the policy and her violation of it. It is pretty simple from an outsider looking in. [/quote]

+1000 People are missing the point.  Too many teleworkers [b]abuse the privilege and policies[/b] and it is the main reason why teleworking is frowned upon.[/quote]

This. Also, believe it or not, it IS disruptive to coworkers if they never know when this person is going to be in the office or not. I HATE telework at my federal agency for this reason. I can't stand having to hunt someone down or figure out if they're randomly on telework that day because they're not answering my calls. [/quote]

That is a tech problem not a telework problem--get phone calls forwarded, VM sent to email so telework employees see calls, etc.[/quote]

Things don't work this way in the government. Half of you posting in this thread clearly aren't federal employees.

Time is also very strictly tracked and audited, so no, managers cannot just judge on productivity/billables alone. You HAVE to put in the time.

+1.  I work for a services (consulting) organization and our people are working at a different site every week.  Instead of calling (which is disruptive anyways, since it assumes the other person can drop what they're doing and answer your call) we use IM and email.  Somehow the world keeps on turning even though we don't know where someone is on a given day.  [/quote][/quote]

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