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Anonymous wrote:Accenture

I hope you mean that as a joke.

they do allow telework
I interviewed with them for a legal position and it allowed for 3 days a week of telecommuting and after meeting with many of the people who worked there, several said they came in less frequently because they have a shared office arrangement in the Reston office and office space was often not available
You had to preschedule days you wanted to use the temporary offices
As a consulting firm, it seemed to be a large part of their culture

unless something has changed since I interviewed about 5 yrs ago

I know two attorneys currently working there

That said, they all mentioned how they were on call all the time and often expected to work into the evenings since they were home

The telework options sounded great...the pay...not so much

Accenture moved its offices to Arlington about a year ago and they have even less space for Legal than they used to. Many of their lawyers telecommute 90 or 100%-time and I know of at least one lawyer there who works part-time.

I think their pay is about average for in-house positions.

My friend who works there is happy with her setup. She goes to the office a few times a month.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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For the PP whose work requires access to paper files: That is your job. You do what you have to do to deliver results. For you, that seems to mean spending at least some time in a physical office. But it does not have to mean sitting in a specific chair during specific hours. Don't you ever do any work that does NOT require access to those files? My job requires access to physical files as well as access to a secured computer terminal that sits on a desk in an office downtown. But I only need those things for about 30% of my overall job. And that 30% usually takes place at certain times in the financial cycle. It's not from 9am to 12pm Monday through Friday 52 weeks a year without fail-- it's more like a solid week at the end of each month, and a solid month at the end of the fiscal year. When I'm not doing those particular tasks, why should I be at that desk? I have a laptop and a cell phone. People who need me can reach me. I can send emails and edit reports from anywhere, at any time. As long as I get it done by deadline, why should anyone care where I was sitting when I was doing it? Yes, I go to an office. I do it when my work requires it, not on some anachronistic schedule. Not like I'm assembling widgets on a conveyor belt which is connected to a machine which sits in a factory.

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Well some of us can't take the work home as that is not a a place to keep sensitive information or send it over email.

Aren't there methods of addressing this? I know my husband has one laptop for classified info and one for non-classified info.