Overview – Federal Telework: Obstacles and Opportunities

Despite over ten years of increasingly explicit legislation that encouraged, and now requires, telework, less than 7% of federal employees do so with any regularity. Global Workplace Analytics latest white paper, Federal Telework: Obstacles andOpportunities, offers insights from agency leaders on what’s holding telework back and what can be done to move it forward. As in the private sector, the biggest barrier is cultural. Managers need to learn how to manage by results, not presence. Beyond that, federal telework managers say they desperately need better training and better access to collaboration tools such as videoconferencing.