Tag Archives: Mobile Work Exchange

Telework Week Totals More Than 160,000 Participants

Posted on March 11, 2014 by FCW

Originally posted on FCW by Frank Konkel

More than 163,000 people - the vast majority of them federal employees - teleworked at least one day during Mobile Work Exchange's fourth annual Telework Work, easily surpassing last year's then-record participation of 136,000.

For the second straight year, Telework Week,�held March 3-7, received an influx of federal teleworkers following a late winter storm, but its continued popularity signals the growing influence of the mobile employee in the federal workplace, according to Mobile Work Exchange Cindy Auten.

As evidence, she referenced Telework Week's first official year, which drew 39,000 pledges, and it's unofficial, more humble beginnings that saw just a few thousand teleworkers in government.

Continue reading →

Posted in Event News Articles | Tagged Government, Mobile Work Exchange, Telework, Telework Week, Washington DC

Have You Made Your Telework Week Pledge?

Posted on February 13, 2014 by NextGov

Originally posted on NextGov.com by Brittany Ballenstedt.

The fourth annual Telework Week is just three weeks away, and more agencies are planning to use the event to test their continuity of operations plans.

As of Monday morning, nearly 30,000 workers had pledged to telework during this year's Telework Week, which runs March 3-7. Pledges to the program often surge in the final weeks of February, particularly as federal agencies submit total pledges on behalf of their employees, Cindy Auten, general manager of Mobile Work Exchange, told Wired Workplace on Friday.

Continue reading →