OPM Directs Agencies to Track Telework Data

Not to be upstaged by the budget release, OPM announced new reporting requirements to enhance telework transparency. In a memo designed to enhance decision making around remote work, OPM updated data elements agencies are required to collect on each of their employees:

• remote work/telework agreement type;

• remote work instances in a pay period; and

• remote work hours in a pay period.
  
  “These new data elements will provide deeper and improved granularity into understanding the workforce characteristics . . . [and] they have the potential to improve Governmentwide reporting of Federal employee participation in remote work, telework and mobile work, as well as allow OPM to evaluate trends and determine how such work arrangements might advance the accomplishment of mission critical requirements and organizational effectiveness.”