Its critical that we allow telework to minimize the number of people in federal buildings. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. Thank you. At this time i want to proceed with testimony from our witnesses. Let me do a quick introduction of the four of them. Joining us remotely is Michelle Rosenberg and the Strategic Issues team where she is on capital issues and she served for over 20 years on gaos tenured team. Shes been recognized with Health Care Team awards including two Meritorious Service awards and shell be testifying first and joining us remotely. Mr. Keith waington is with the u. S. Department of troilgz. Has been with the Department Since 1991 and in hiscurrent position he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of Human Resources, security, audit relations, acquitions and gras and transportation and facilities and space management. Maybe you can lead nasa for us next since we need a new director for nasa since yo
Modernizing the teleworking moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid19 pandemic. We should have some good come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, what gaps are still there, and what better we can do for this process. Its been a decade since the last telework legislation. The telework enhancement act of it set the baseline standards 2010. For them to follow with telework and over the last 10 years, weve seen great advances in technology and workforce expectations and the increase in cybersecurity threats. So many changes in the world, it makes sense to take a close look at the telework policies and strategies than the federal workforce. Current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass for telework policy improvement. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with ho
Learned and what to better improve the process. Its been a decade since the last significant piece of the telework legislation, the telework enhancement act of 2010 and it set the baseline standards for them to follow with telework and over the last ten years, weve seen great advances in technology and workforce expectations and the increase in cybersecurity threats. So many changes in the world it makes sense to take a close look at the telework policies and strategies than the federal workforce. The current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information to what theyve done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with how they recalibrate the telework strategies and policies. During that hearing we gained insight into what the current private workforce is demanding. This, coupled with the environmental challenges we now face will help us create remote wo
I want to drive it all night long. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Happy thursday, little friday. Im lauren. Cheryl all night long, youve got the markets trading a lot of action to get to. Good morning, im cheryl casone. Lauren lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning after nearly 1200 point rally yesterday, stocks giving some of that back this morning, dow down almost 400 points, one andahalf percent. Nasdaq down 146 this morning. Cheryl on the heels of 50 basis point cut by the fed, that big surprise this week, records this week on the 10 year. We are still below 1 on the yield. This is something else. We are down 7. 9 basis points this morning, incredible on the 10 year. Lauren opec meeting in vienna, the price of oil is down a third of 1 . Will they announce production cuts to boost that price . Gold up 1. 80 this morning at 1644 an ounce. Cheryl stocks in asia, the number of confirmed cases in china over 80,000, 6,000 cases in south korea consistent firm
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