Great...now the SEIU minions can just stay home and produce nothing, rather than taking up office space with their feet up.
This topic came up in a major way after the big snow storm in DC back in Feb of this year (I’m a gov’t worker who faced the same issue). Eventually, they decided that after the snow-days...they couldn’t repeat that again...so if everyone had laptops...they’d just work at home (their logic, not mine).
So over the past couple of months...they’ve produced rules and standards over teleworking. You actually have to have your office phone routed to your home phone. You have to attend meetings via a ‘messenger-like’ service. You have to attend classes to teach you ethics and accountability over teleworking.
So I brought this up to my Army boss (a LTC)...and he said I was needed at the job, period. Even in the event of complete blizzard...I needed to make my way to the job. So when you read up on this telework business for gov’t workers...don’t anticipate that we all get offered this deal.