§6506 Reports

Summary

Within 18 months after this law is passed, and then once a year after that, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), working with the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, must send a report about each executive agency’s telework program to two Congressional committees and give copies to the Comptroller General and the Office of Management and Budget. Each report must say how many workers the agency has, how many can telework, and how many actually telework broken down by frequency (3 or more days per pay period; 1–2 days per pay period; once a month; or only occasionally). The report must also explain how the data were collected, why telework changed by 10% or more from the prior year, the agency’s goals for increasing telework, whether prior goals were met and what will be done if not, progress on those goals, effects on things like emergency readiness, energy use, hiring and retention, work performance and productivity, employee opinions, and the program’s best practices. The Government Accountability Office is not counted as an “executive agency,” and the Comptroller General must send the same kind of annual report about the GAO. Within 6 months after OPM sends its first annual report, the Comptroller General must review that report and tell Congress how agencies are doing toward the telework goals set earlier in the law. Each year, every agency’s Chief Human Capital Officer, with that agency’s Telework Managing Officer, must report to the Chair and Vice Chair of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council about management efforts to promote telework. The Council leaders must review those reports, use relevant parts in the annual report to Congress, and use the information for managing agency workforce plans.