About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

LOG IN
LOG IN


GAO-05-1055R 1 (2005-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptarcv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Sai Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 27, 2005 The Honorable Frank R. Wolf Chairman Subcommittee on Science, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Agency Telework Methodologies: Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Small Business Administration, and the Securities and Exchange Commission Dear Mr. Chairman: Telecommuting, or telework-meaning work that is performed at an employee's home or at a work location other than a traditional office-has gained widespread attention over the past decade in both the public and private sectors, offering a variety of potential benefits to employers, employees, and society. On July 29, 2005, we briefed your office on the results of our review of telework methodologies at the Departments of Commerce (DOC), Justice (DOJ), State, the Small Business Administration (SBA), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This report transmits the information provided during that briefing. (See enclosure.) Specifically, you had asked us to provide information on and analysis of the methodology that each of the five agencies used to define employees eligible to telecommute, the methods each agency used to make telecommuting opportunities available to eligible employees and what those opportunities are, and how each agency defines and measures telecommuting participation rates. Background The Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriations Act for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies' required the five agencies-DOC, DOJ, State, SBA, and SEC-to certify that telecommuting opportunities were made available to 100 percent of the eligible workforce. Of the total amounts appropriated to each agency, $5 million was to be available only upon such certification. The legislation further required that each of those agencies provide the House and Senate 'Pub. L. No. 108-447, Division B, Section 622 GAO-05-1055R Agency Telework Methodologies