Pros
Telework means not having to see the office 3 days a week.
Cons
DQB Boston is a terrible place to work. The executives currently in charge of the component are awful managers and don't really know the difference between numbers flying around and actual quality. These offices are supposed to stop the public from getting bad decisions but are now mostly about making incompetent people feel good about themselves by giving them high paying jobs they would never be able to compete for in the private sector. A disability case has hundreds of pages of medical records. 5 a day, which was the cap years ago, is perhaps doable but more than that is not. Are humans capable of reading thousands of pages a day for comprehension? People can say yes but think about it. The people who are supposedly handling more work are literally hopped up on ADHD meds and doing other things they shouldn’t be. (There is an abuse problem in Boston TBH with the younger staff trading and sharing Adderall on duty). The managers in Boston frequently "volunteer" the office to do more work. The work is never divided evenly in the office because there are too many people who got their jobs politically and people who just can’t handle it - like people with mental issues that prevent reading and writing. Also, the managers don't care that the workers in this office do more work than the other DQBs and get less compensation. There is less OT and other perks available here than at some of the other DQBs whose management and union officials actually advocate for them. Headquarters loves this arrangement and pretty much told us literally told us this during a recent, embarrassing waste of taxpayer dollars to send the executives up here to brag in our faces about how they take advantage of us. Typical civil service - the best and brightest get passed over for butt sniffers and other wholly political appointments. We have a guy who does almost nothing but is politically well-connected and holds parties for the office at his house regularly. So, he does almost nothing and gets ROC awards every year. That is how Boston works. There is also ageism as the staff development programs are mostly reserved for young people who are politically connected. Again, generally not people who can compete in the private sector. Let’s not even get into the other-isms. Lots of people with roots in Southie working here, unfortunately. You don't want to give up a good job for one at the DQB. Most of the people who work here don’t have anywhere else to go. I have been working for this agency for nearly 40 years. If it weren’t for the telework, I would have left when this office became as unprofessional as it is.