{"id":16847,"date":"2021-05-19T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/19\/want-to-keep-teleworking-heres-the-air-forces-new-ground-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:25:39","slug":"want-to-keep-teleworking-heres-the-air-forces-new-ground-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/05\/19\/want-to-keep-teleworking-heres-the-air-forces-new-ground-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to keep teleworking? Here\u2019s the Air Force\u2019s new ground rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Air Force has updated its guidelines to allow employees to continue working outside of an office, whether periodically or permanently, as vaccinated Americans begin returning to their jobs in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the military cannot work from home, of course. Most aircraft won\u2019t fit in a maintainer\u2019s garage, for example. Still, the Air Force expects that a large portion of its workforce would opt to stay out of the office for more flexibility, even as the coronavirus pandemic subsides in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service plans to review its telework efforts of the past 15 months, which it scrambled to implement across badly outdated IT systems as the pandemic swept around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Department of the Air Force is using lessons learned about teleworking and remote work during the pandemic as an opportunity to grow,\u201d said John Fedrigo, acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, in a Tuesday release<\/a>. \u201cThe pandemic has shown we can be successful using telework in many areas of our mission, and it helps to bridge our current force structure to the force we need for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n