Brittany Ballenstedt, NextGov: “Telework-ready federal employees were required to work on Tuesday after another snowstorm shut down federal offices in the Washington, D.C. region. And now, managers have a new toolkit to help them calculate how much telework saves them on days such as this, when productivity would otherwise be lost. Also on Tuesday, the Office of Personnel Management and Mobile Work Exchange released a new telework toolkit to help agency managers more effectively measure the cost savings and benefits telework is providing across the agency across several commonly identified value factors: transit subsidies, environmental, continuity of operations, productivity, employee retention and real estate utilities.”