Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
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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
And others will appear remotely. Sie some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everybody that pursut to the latest guidancerom the house attending physician, all dividuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask willot be recoized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members that are appearing in person. You will only see members and tnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in fro of you when they are speaking in what is knowas active speaker mode. A timer is visible directly in front of you. For the members appearing remotely i kw that you are all aware by now. But let me remi everyone of a few points first. You wille able to see each other speaking during the hearing. Whetr they are in person or remote as long as you haveour web said to active speaker mode. If you have any queions about this actation, please contact the Committee Staff immediately. Second, we have a timer that should be visible on yr scre