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Kansas City is Latest NNSA Facility to Expand Telework, Limit On-Site Personnel

Monday, March 30th, 2020

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Kansas City is Latest NNSA Facility to Expand Telework, Limit On-Site Personnel

An overhead view of the Kansas City National Security Campus, where the Department of Energy manufactures non-nuclear nuclear-weapon components.

The Kansas City National Security Campus is moving some of its workforce off-site to help cope with COVID-19, making it the latest Department of Energy civilian nuclear weapons site to expand telework during the pandemic. “To further protect our work force during the COVID-19 crisis, the Kansas City National Security Campus has reduced its on-site personnel and expanded telework opportunities so employees can continue to meet our critical national security requirements in a safe and secure manager,” according to a…

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