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B-214453 1 (1984-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmbf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OSCISION OF THE UNITED STATES E 91 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-214453 DATE: December 6, 19$4 MATTER OF: Duty assignment of typists at their homes DIGEST: The payment of salaries for a select group of typists assigned to work at their homes is not legally objectionable where their actual work performance can be measured against established quantity and quality norms so as to verify time and attendance reports. Under administrative controls for monitoring the amount and quality of typing, the Veterans Administration proposes to allow a limited number of typists to work at home and asks whether there would be any objection to paying the employees working at home. We find that paying employees assigned to home work sites on a limited basis is legally permissible if there are adequate monitoring controls.1/ Initially ten employees, and at most fifteen, assigned to a Veterans Administration facility at Wilkes-Barre, , Pennsylvania, would be selected to type at home. The stated purpose of the proposal is to increase productivity, enhance morale, and prevent overcrowding at the Wilkes-Barre facil- ity. The typists, using Government equipment at home, would receive transcribing cassettes from the facility after being selected during a monitoring period when their lines-per- minute and number of mistakes per line are computed. Only high performers during the monitoring phase would be selected. The volume and quality norms established during the in-house monitoring would be the basis for reviewing the work performed at home. Typists would be required to sched- ule home tours of duty in advance and turn in a signed weekly record of periods actually worked. We have observed that under most circumstances Federal employees will not be compensated for work performed at home rather than at their duty stations. However, we have made 1!/ The Administrator of the Veterans Administration requested this decision. 030-743

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