The report is the first from the War Department since Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa sent a letter to 24 government agencies requesting a review of the issues involved with telecommuting in August 2023, with some agencies refusing to send data during the Biden administration. The War Department was unable to reliably determine how many employees were teleworking, largely due to a lack of proper recordkeeping, individual agencies within the Department of War developing their own policies and employees using the wrong timesheets to document remote work, according to the OIG report. Ernst detailed the issues that telework created involving locality pay, an adjustment to the basic pay of civilian employees in the federal government intended to make sure that federal employees have comparable compensation to private-sector counterparts in a given area of the country, in a December 2024 report.
Author: Harold Hutchison
Published at: 2026-01-20 23:14:53
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