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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Officially 26 days per year. Unofficially partial and full telework is more widespread and will remain that way unless/until they audit badge swipes.[/quote]

[b]They are already auditing our badge swipes. We’ve been warned.[/b] [/quote]

Which agency?[/quote]

They are building a dashboard at our agency so senior management can see when badge swipes do not match time sheets. That said, they have apparently been building it for over a year. I think a big complicating issue is that we have regional offices all over the country with different systems. I have employees in multiple locations around the country and I cannot physically monitor them.

Apparently OIGs across government are flagging this as potential avenue for investigating timecard fraud this year and into next year.

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What a waste of time and energy. Instead, they should be focused on productivity and accomplishments. What you described is pathetic.  [/quote]

Very hard to fire for productivity in the federal government (first hand experience). Easy to fire for time card fraud. Every time an employee isn’t doing their work, they blame it on bad managers. It’s a catch 22 for managers. When you try to go after bad employees, they say it’s your fault for not being stricter and that’s why the employees are underperforming.

We have no telework at my agency. Except everyone got RAs for anxiety and back problems. [/quote]

Look, time card fraud is frankly inexcusable—but hard to monitor as a supervisor. I’d rather have a warning that one of my employee is not accounting for their time properly than have to go through months of feet dragging with HR about performance managing an employee who is unreliable because they simply aren’t working full time, and lying about it.  Thats a conduct issue that I can’t address until it’s way too late for them.  It’s not hard to track your time and ask for leave and put in your time card the right way.  We have very generous policies around leave , there’s really no excuse for lying.  So I support more transparency on that front.  I also think telework should be more widely available again, and we should follow the OPM guidance from before the pandemic.  It worked fine.[/quote]

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