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quote: "7. There was no guidance this time that furloughed employees couldn't check their e-mail."
Though I'm not a federal employee, I do work in an office where we share space with federal employees. One agency was totally furloughed, the other agency wasn't. We locked the door to their space. NO ONE could go in that office. NO ONE including the furloughed employees. They absolutely could not check their email because they had to leave their government laptops in the building. They were strictly warned that to do so would be very bad and they could get fired. They cannot just go online and check their emails. It is all on secure federal servers that can only be accessed by certified computers. I do not know if this worked with all agencies, but this is how things worked where I am at. Plus they are tracked when they log into their computers. IT can see everything that is posted, every internet page visited, every letter written, every piece of paper printed.