Congressional Research Employees Association

Lists of First and Second Round of Teleworkers Available
On Tuesday, May 18, the CRS Office of Workforce Management and Development (WRK) forwarded to the Office of Information Management and Technology (IMT) the names of the first cohort of CRS employees that have been approved for telework. You can see your order in the queue by looking at the First Telework Cohort List. If you applied after May 3, and were approved, you can check your order in the Second Telework Round List.

Laptop Configuration to Begin
There are 148 employees in the first cohort. IMT hopes to complete 50 laptops per week. However, the process is the same as if you were receiving a new desktop computer. Files must be transferred from your desktop to the laptop, etc. Depending on each employee’s situation, the process may take several hours.

How the Queue Was Determined
Per agreement between CREA and CRS management, all CRS employees eligible for telework (i.e. all non-supervisory employees),  whether interested in telework or not, have been assigned a random number. That number was generated by IMT using a standard random number generating algorithm. All those employees who submitted their telework application on or before May 3 (the first official date for submitting applications), and who were subsequently approved, form the first cohort. The order in which they will be contacted by IMT was based on their random number, starting with the employee with the lowest number and proceeding upward.

Second Round
Those employees who submitted their application on May 4, and were subsequently approved for telework, form a second cohort. They will be contacted by IMT after the last employee of the first cohort receives his/her laptop. Again, the order within the second cohort is determined by the employee’s random number.

Future Rounds
Which cohort an employee is in is determined by the date they applied. Their order within the cohort is determined by their random number. Additional cohorts will be forwarded from WRK to IMT until the number of applicants are reduced to a level which IMT can handle on a routine basis.

Questions?
If you have any questions about the process of applying for telework, getting approved, receiving a laptop, and starting your telework experience, please contact CREA.