Telework: The Law Nobody Knows About
February 21st, 2008 by Cali & Jody
We were pleased to see a follow up to the post we wrote almost two weeks ago, the one that talked about how U.S. government departments have a mandate to offer telework but don’t.
The follow up talks about how 4 in 10 of workers surveyed were unaware they had the option. Obviously this is an institutional problem. The word simply isn’t getting out. But we also see this as a larger problem. The survey suggests that federal employees are so stymied by their work culture that they are unlikely to even ask if alternative work styles are available.
We’re going to spare you the usual jokes about the government. Federal workers get a bad enough rap without us piling on. This blindness to non-traditional work styles is a far more universal problem. Most people simply aren’t very aggressive in their pursuit of a better way of working. That’s because even in “cool” companies it can be a risk to challenge the status quo.
