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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
f/u: federal contractors who telework, ?s inside!
what are your employer's guidelines for teleworking (especially if you DO NOT work at a client site daily)?
how do you account for your telework time? do you have blanket approval to telework in general?
do you have to get special approval in advance for specific tasks or is the submission of your detailed time and activities report (timesheet) sufficient?
my employer is giving me a hard time about it (see post below) and i've been asking around to see what others do.
thanks!
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Re: f/u: federal contractors who telework, ?s inside!
Do you work on site at your agency? Before I became an FTE I was a contractor on-site for four years. Luckily for us contractors here are treated essentially as feds, so we followed the same policies.
As I stated below, this involved:
- Signing an annual telework agreement, outlining when I would be teleworking (for me, this is every Wednesday) and the general tasks I would be working on
- Bringing home my government laptop, equipped with VPN so I could access all our network drives/files etc
- "Signing in" to telework with my supervisor listing my tasks for the day
- "Signing out" listing what I'd completed
I was also able to telework as-needed (if there was bad weather, I was waiting for a repair person to come, I had a doctor's appointment and it made more sense to go there from home rather than coming in to the office for an hour, etc.). That I usually cleared with my supervisor a day ahead, unless it was emergency, and that was often done verbally. There was no real "approval" involved unless there was some concern that I might be missing something important if I wasn't physically in the office.TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
i have a variety of clients (at different agencies) and i don't ever work on-site for any of them. we do have some staff that work on-site at agencies, so my employers is claiming that we have to follow OPM standards for telework ("because we are a federal contractor". what i'm learning is that OPM sets general standards but policies, procedures, etc. are actually determined agency by agency and that government contractors (per telework.gov) are not subject to those guidelines anyway.
Both of these are completely true. So are you dealing with your federal supervisor giving you issues, or your employer (the contractor)? I'm pretty sure they can make up their own policies, unfortunately.
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
only my employer.
i wish he would just make up his own policy and say "b/c i said so" rather than saying it was because OPM said so and a whole bunch of other BS that i can fact check and disprove.
i also wish he would universally apply whatever he decides and not cherry pick and allow the men to do things the women aren't allowed to do.
but that's probably a whole other post.
Yeah. The telework policies at my agency are not going to make your boss less of an asshat.
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you girls!
i'm on my way out of here, just trying to make the next 6 months tolerable. my business is doing well and i hope to be able to give notice after the holidays.
Do you have an HR person who can address this? Who can make a policy, have boss man sign off on it, and it would apply to everyone? You can offer to right the policy, "help" them out!
this is what i'm going to do this week.
and, no, we have no HR. and boss man is the president of the company.
Sorry, "write" not right. Dopey me.
When I see inconsistencies at work I throw myself in the hopper to be one of the architects of the revised policy. Sometimes people are relieved that anyone cares enough to work on it.
Good luck Lindsey!