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I have noticed some jobs at USDA research that are telework. What is the furthest distance that an employee could live and telework?
What is the normal Telework routine? 2 days a week, 5 days a week?
What about alternate work schedule for USDA in DC? Is this a thing?
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Originally Posted by: 0018 Hopeful  I have noticed some jobs at USDA research that are telework. What is the furthest distance that an employee could live and telework?
What is the normal Telework routine? 2 days a week, 5 days a week?
What about alternate work schedule for USDA in DC? Is this a thing? USDA recently took away (and then had to backtrack a little...but only a little..now they can do 1 day of telework) telework from everyone except those with it as a Reasonable Accommodation (and even then it was scrutinized hard). Based on the people I know in USDA (including its sub-agencies) here in DC, it isn't an agency I'd recommend to anyone if they had other options. It isn't even just the telework issue, but other actions they have done over the past year that does not show they actually care about the employees. Edited by user Monday, December 17, 2018 4:20:02 AM(UTC)
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The issue is "local commuting area".
Telework is a moving target. The "benefits" of telework and alternate work schedule are encouraged by OPM but the implementation is at the discretion of the agency and the management within the agency.
Commuting area means the geographic area surrounding a work site that encompasses the localities where people live and reasonably can be expected to travel back and forth daily to work, as established by the employing agency based on the generally held expectations of the local community. When an employee’s residence is within the standard commuting area for a work site, the work site is within the employee’s commuting area. When an employee’s residence is outside the standard commuting area for a proposed new work site, the employee’s commuting area is deemed to include the expanded area surrounding the employee’s residence and including all destinations that can be reached via a commuting trip that is not significantly more burdensome than the current commuting trip. This excludes a commuting trip from a residence where the employee planned to stay only temporarily until he or she could find a more permanent residence closer to his or her work site. For this purpose, a commuting trip to a new work site is considered significantly more burdensome if it would compel the employee to change his or her place of residence in order to continue employment, taking into account commuting time and distance, availability of public transportation, cost, and any other relevant factors.
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