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By Daniel Pulliam dpulliam@govexec.com August 8, 2005
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    What it turned out to be was a way for managers to go play golf. It was the bosses that got to work at home, not the grunts or the techs or the engineers. It was also the bosses that started abusing the system.

    Ironically, when the managers did start working at home and messing around, it didn't affect the overall productivity of their branches. That kind of threw the executives a curve ball. The bosses and their bosses and so on proved that they really were not as important to the mission as they thought they were. It also proved that the upper management was pretty clueless about what really goes on in the office. I think the most interesting result was that some divisions became more productive when the bosses stayed away.

    So, the entire telework program where I was employed was quietly canceled. It is also why federal agencies are reluctant to implement it. It offers just too much proof of how much waste and mismanagement there really is.

    Robert M. Posted August 9, 2005 8:29 PM

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Computer security not a telework hindrance, says advocacy group
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