
A recent Government Accountability Office report confirms what most observers already assumed — the COVID-19 pandemic prompted much of the federal workforce at the Department of Energy and elsewhere to abandon their cubicles in favor of telecommuting, although the practice has its own hassles. The DoE, a part of which manages U.S. nuclear weapons modernization, found there were limits to its work-from-home efforts especially in areas like security, sensitive records and integrating newly-hired employees, according to the Government Accountability Office…