All posts tagged "remote working"

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  Top teleworking tips: OPM shares performance management advice for hybrid-working US federal government

  The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has circulated information to human resource directors at federal agencies setting out how to operate a performance management process for employees in a

  • Posted February 9, 2022
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  Belgian civil servants granted ‘right to disconnect’ after working hours

  Belgian civil servants have gained the right not to reply to calls or emails from their employers outside of normal working hours. The new law granting around 65,000 civil servants

  • Posted February 4, 2022
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  Remote working: UK civil servants told to return to pre-COVID office arrangements

  UK government departments have been told to accelerate the return of officials to the office from this week after coronavirus regulations on working from home were removed. In a statement

  • Posted January 25, 2022
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  COVID-19 vaccine mandates, public servants’ pay, and the return to the office: Global Government Forum’s top news stories of 2021

  What you’ve been reading over the last 12 months This year has once again been dominated by the coronavirus. From the rollout of vaccines – and their mandation for workers

  • Posted December 28, 2021
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  Learn the lessons of COVID-19 remote working, says OPM as it publishes fresh guidance on telework

  The US Office of Personnel Management has published updated guidance on telework, which encourages federal government agencies to make the shift to remote working in the pandemic a permanent feature

  • Posted November 21, 2021
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  Don’t pin hopes on return to pre-pandemic ‘normal’, UK perm sec tells leaders

  Civil service leaders should not expect workplaces to return to pre-pandemic norms and must instead embrace innovations made over the last 20 months, permanent secretary at the UK Department for

  • Posted October 25, 2021
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  UK government plans to set civil service return-to-work deadlines

  The UK Cabinet Office may impose deadlines for civil servants to return to Whitehall after months of tensions over remote working arrangements between ministers and unions. The cabinet secretary, Simon

  • Posted October 12, 2021
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  FDA union chief fires back at criticisms of remote-working UK civil servants

  The general secretary of the FDA union Dave Penman has hit back at Conservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden for criticising civil servants who work from home. Dowden said earlier this

  • Posted October 6, 2021
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  Necessity is the mother of innovation: turning burning platforms into launchpads for reform

  In the face of the pandemic, civil servants have taken big risks to protect their populations – short-circuiting established processes to launch innovative services and transform working practices. At a

  • Posted September 20, 2021
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  We’re all teleworkers now: flexible working policies in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia

  As social distancing rules are relaxed, will civil servants be drawn back into the office? Pablo Jimenez Arandia examines the emerging policies on flexible working in four big countries and

  • Posted August 31, 2021
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