Study Reveals $13.9 Billion Annual Federal Telework Deficit. Most Federal Workers Can Work From Home, But Don’t

Telework Exchange, a public-private partnership focused on telework in government, today announced the results of the "Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill" study.

Underwritten by Tandberg, the study reveals that federal government agencies are telework friendly, based on responses to a quiz-based calculator that helps employees determine telework eligibility. An overwhelming majority — 96 percent — of respondents should be teleworking said the Telework Exchange in a release, yet only 20 percent currently do.

Extrapolating from the online calculator, the study reveals that if all federal employees who are eligible to telework full time were to do so, the federal government could realize $13.9 billion savings in commuting costs annually and eliminate 21.5 billion pounds of pollutants out of the environment each year.

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