When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States in March and April last year, the U.S. federal government, the largest employer globally, moved faster than many of the world’s leading private sector businesses when it came to remote work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of this speed, major federal agencies and their subsidiaries had to consider how to have a federal workforce work efficiently from their living rooms or a more convenient workspace location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They had to ask: How do you balance the new normal of flexible work with one of the largest commercial office space footprints in the world? The answer to that question is evolving, but the future of flexible work in the public sector looks bright for both federal employees and the American taxpayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To provide some insight into how the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), an independent federal agency that oversees the government\u2019s real estate footprint, is thinking about this evolving answer, WeWork connected with Tim Horne, former GSA acting administrator and a 27-year veteran of federal commercial real estate, to give us a peek under the hood.<\/p>\n\n\n