The Office of Personnel Management has announced that it updated its free online “telework 101” course for employees
and mangers to include information on responding to a pandemic flu outbreak.
The management lessons introduce managers to basic telework concepts and walks them through the process of developing a program, selecting employees for telework, and managing
effectively in a telework environment.
Specifically, the pandemic lesson covers what a pandemic is, recent government policy, and how telework can help prepare managers for such scenarios.
OPM said that after completing the lesson, managers should be able to define a pandemic and the risks posed, describe how telework could assist in the government’s response to an
outbreak, as well as list actions that could be taken by a manager to prepare.