Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

33060.4 Definitions

• Alternate Work Location
  The term alternate work location refers to the approved work location other than the office. Alternate work location could be an employee’s residence or other approved site.

• Dedicated Workstation
  The single equipment complement provided to employees to perform state business, including computing, telephone, and ergonomic equipment.

• Dependent Care
  The term dependent care refers to the support and nurturing of persons who cannot meet their own needs, such as children, functionally impaired adults, or the elderly.

• Information Assets
  All categories of information (confidential, personal, sensitive, or public), all forms of information (paper or electronic), information technology (ITInformation Technology) facilities, equipment, and software owned or leased by state agencies.

• Office (Headquarters)
  The term office refers to the location, state building, or official worksite that would be the employee’s work location if not teleworking.

• Office-Centered Telework
  A teleworker is considered Office-centered if they work more than fifty percent from the office. Office-centered teleworkers maintain a dedicated workstation in the office and utilize their own equipment or department provided mobile equipment for teleworking at their designated alternate work location.

• Remote Access
  The connection of an information asset (e.g., computing equipment) from an alternate work location to an information asset on a state ITInformation Technology infrastructure.

• Remote-Centered Telework
  A teleworker is considered Remote-centered if they work fifty percent or more of their time from an alternate work location. Remote-centered teleworkers shall have their dedicated workstation located at their designated alternate work location. Remote-centered teleworkers shall use shared space when working in the office.

• Shared Space
  Shared space is a work area that is used on an individual basis by multiple people. Alternatives may include hoteling or shared cubicles.

• Telework
  The terms ‘telework,’ ‘teleworking,’ ‘telecommute,’ and ‘telecommuting’ are defined as a work flexibility arrangement established between the department management and the employee under which the employee performs the duties and responsibilities of the employee’s position, and other authorized activities from an approved location other than the office. In practice, telework is a work arrangement that allows an employee to perform work, during any part of regular, paid hours, at an approved alternate work location.