New Rules for Monitoring Federal Teleworking Employees
This act introduces new rules for monitoring federal teleworking employees, including collecting data on network activity and connection duration. The goal is to increase efficiency and oversight of remote work, which may affect the flexibility of federal employees' work arrangements.
Key points
Requirement to collect login activity and network traffic data from federal teleworking employees.
Mandatory periodic review of network traffic by managers for teleworking employees.
Requirement for employees at headquarters to use ID cards for login, with data collection on their activity.
Publication of telework data in budget justification materials, protecting personal information.
New policies for documenting reasons for revoking telework privileges for employees.
Introduced
Additional Information
Print number: 119_S_21
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Process start date: 2025-01-07