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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Email came out from our Agency -- noted that they intended to fully comply but will discuss with peer agencies and fulfill collective bargaining obligations in revising the telework policies.

I don't wish to be in my agency leadership's shoes now. I'll gladly take the 2 days/PP TW that we used to have before COVID. Most of us are back 4-6 days/PP anyway and adding a couple of days is not a problem. The pointless pinprick requests for situational TW will drive my poor supervisor mad. [/quote]

Didn't you see the followup OPM did on situational telework? There will not be requests to your manager. Besides, it's your manager AND agency head who have to approve situational telework. https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPM/bulletins/3ce821e[/quote]

I did and it makes no sense. Agency heads are ridiculously busy (mine is out of DC/US half the time). [b]How will they certify a measly request for a 1 hour telework so I can attend a 10 AM meeting downtown [/b]if they are in Singapore that day? Ridiculous. Unless they mean recurring telework (which apparently won't exist)....[/quote]

That's not telework.[/quote]

You’d need an hour of telework from 8:30-9:30 to get to your 10 am offsite. I think the idea is that if you had to commute in you wouldn’t be able to get to your office and then get to the offsite and still work for that hour.  Most offsite meetings don’t have space you can use to work for an hour before your meeting. [/quote]

I was the PP about the nickel-and-dime TW requests. Exactly this. I'm not going to schlep 30 min to my site, then 45 min to downtown or Rockville or wherever and back again. Don't even know if the schlep would count as work or commute. None of this is well thought out. I sometimes wonder whether the public thinks the Federal government is like the local DMV. [/quote]

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