This bill comes after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to start bringing employees back to work.
By Sarah AschMay 13, 2025 10:02 amGovernment & Politics, Texas Standard Original
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Policies around remote work are ever changing since companies sent employees home in March 2020. Increasingly, people are expected back in their offices – and that includes those employed by the state of Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott in March ordered state agencies to bring workers back in-person.
This order inspired a piece of legislation that would create rules for how state agencies can allow employees to work remotely.
Karen Brooks Harper, a senior politics reporter at the Dallas Morning News, said this bill is intended to standardize remote work practices across various state agencies.
“What this does is just kind of put some protections into place in the state code for employees to be able to enter into these telework arrangements. And basically, the bill asks for some accountability,” she said.
“If an employee enters into a telework agreement with their bosses at the state agency, it has to include the reason telework is being authorized, the terms under which they may be revoked, and it needs to be renewed at least once a year after the employee begins. To make sure that it’s working, there needs to be a way for the agency to decide if the employee is doing their job productively in the telework arrangement.”
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