The State Department is broadly re-imagining the future of work for its domestic and overseas employees, with accessibility at the core of these changes.
Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Brian McKeon said the agency is looking at telework beyond the scope of reasonable accommodations for eligible employees, as something that much of the workforce can benefit from, particularly for employees who don’t work on classified issues.
“It’s clear that we are not going back to the status quo ante of February 2020, where most people come into the department every day,” McKeon said in a recent interview. “We’re going to have to adjust and have a hybrid work environment that provides flexibility for employees, but it will be based primarily on people’s jobs and function.”
McKeon said the State Department on April 25 reached the “all functions in” point of its COVID workplace framework, which means more employees have come back into their offices.
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