VA Bill Sends State Employees Home > Buhahaha

Buhahaha

We had one new campus building that, due to budget cuts, we had to cut the fourth floor out of. That floor would have housed all the faculty offices, so they were forced to telecommute. They were given a laptop, a cell phone and $50/month towards their high speed internet cost. It has worked out very well for those that could adapt to the new style of working.

There are plenty of state positions that do not have to be in their offices full time to do the work they do and a 20% reduction is certainly doable.

Yeah, there are plenty of government employees who show up and take up an office, use a computer, suck up bandwidth, burn electricity and don't do much at all. But they are not the majority.
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Team Discovery

Our agency is not like that, due to I work in a Child Support Enforcement Unit for IL's Healthcare & Family Services agency. We have gotten to the point that it is a fight to get the Gov. to allow hiring for our Agency, due to the demand is so great for services for CS enforcement.

I telework and find it great. I found that it was not that hard to buckle down and stay on task. Anyway a lot easier than I thought it would be. I think the one thing that helped was to have aplace set up to work from home. It took a weekend to get a room ready then had to furnish it (used desks and tables that I already had) and then get a second line hooked up just for work. If the employer is really into this then that makes the job easier to do.

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There are a lot of positions in agencies that will need to be "in the office" because they are dealing with the public or have a need to meet with representatives from different agencies and there is no practical way to do that while working from home.

In your case it is unfortunate that your government does not want to provide appropriate staffing. I know what you mean. I moved over to the community college from the Dept. of Mental Health because it was on the short end of the funding stick and I had a better opportunity working for a department that was politically in favor.
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Team Discovery