A handful of smaller agencies have offered employees the opportunity to work remotely, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, where a suspected infection caused 2,400 workers in that agency’s headquarters to head home. ADADOnly about 40 percent of the 2.1 million federal workers were authorized to work remotely as of 2017, the last year in which data is available. And the Trump administration had been working to limit remote work, demanding some civil servants instead come into the office to perform their jobs. ADDHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a checklist Friday to help agencies ensure remote employees are operating as securely as possible. ADFor government workers that do highly classified work, however, there is no way to work remotely, even if the outbreak gets worse.

Source: Washington Post March 13, 2020 21:48 UTC