WASHINGTON -- Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. White House computers don’t allow the popular video conference software Zoom or rival systems like Google Meet and Slack. And many employees will need to be present at the White House to access classified information. Telework is possible for some White House staff, and improvements in both secure and unclassified videoconferencing have been made over the last two decades. White House veterans say the task of making the West Wing a safe workspace is attainable but will require intense discipline, among both White House staff and the hundreds of government employees from other federal agencies who support it.

Source: ABC News December 16, 2020 05:26 UTC