By Alyssa Rosenberg
An amendment to pending energy legislation that would aggressively push telework options for federal employees could expose a technological generational gap if enacted, but could also provide a valuable incentive to the workforce, participants at a human resources conference said on Sunday.
Most agencies run telework on a voluntary basis, and those programs are typically subject to the discretion of individual managers.
"We have some that are supportive of telework; most would not allow teleworking for more than two days a week," said Dawn Seckinger, a workforce and career development officer for the Centers for Disease Control's Coordinating Center for Health Information, during the HrGov2007 conference in Morgantown, W.Va. "It's a generation gap. You have managers who have been around for twenty years, and they're not adapting well."
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