Washington-Area Feds Should Be Teleworking, White House Says

Federal workers in the Washington metropolitan area should be permitted to telework to the maximum extent possible to reduce the risk of new coronavirus infection, a memo from the White House says.

Agencies should “offer maximum telework flexibilities to all current telework eligible employees, consistent with operational needs of the departments and agencies,” Russell Vought, acting head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said in a Sunday memorandum to agency heads. “In addition, we encourage agencies to use all existing authorities to offer telework to additional employees, to the extent their work could be telework enabled.”

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