Telecommuting Tracking and Reporting

As part of the state's telecommuting guidelines, there are a number of new reporting requirements that have been implemented. Supervisors must ensure that staff within their department who perform any remote work are in compliance with these requirements:

• All staff (exempt, non-exempt, and temporary) must record their telecommuting hours each day they work remotely. 
• Reporting of telecommuting hours must be logged and submitted in the Remote Work Log daily.
• Supervisors must ensure that staff within their department who perform any remote work are in compliance with these requirements.
• If an employee with an approved telecommuting agreement deviates from the approved work schedule, the deviation must be reported on the daily remote work log. This primarily includes when the authorized remote day(s) change. 
• Staff who do not have an approved telecommuting agreement but occasionally are authorized by the supervisor to work remotely on an intermittent or emergency basis must also record their remote work time on the Remote Work Log. This time should be denoted as a deviation in the Remote Work Log. Note that periodic work for two hours or less is considered de minimis and is not reportable.
• Deviations that occur within more than one week within a month during a quarter must be reported to the State.

Remote work logs will be reviewed weekly by Human Resources to assess compliance with approved telecommuting agreements, along with the frequency of deviations.