OPM encourages flexibility for feds during Metro construction

Federal Times: The Office of Personnel Management is encouraging federal managers to consider giving their employees work flexibility during two weeks of extensive track work scheduled for the D.C. Metro system.

“The impact on agencies and employees in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area will vary. As a result, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management would like to take this opportunity to remind agencies to review the policies and procedures on workplace flexibilities that they established during the 2016 [Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority] SafeTrack project and update them as necessary,” OPM director Jeff Pon wrote in an August 10 memo.

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