• Designate an unit telecommuting coordinator and determine employee interest.
  
  
• Explore whether a home based or tele-center workplace is the most feasible.
  
  
• Negotiate with the local employees union, if any.
  
  
• Discuss the feasibility of these alternate workplaces with interested employees.
  
  
• Identify the job positions that would be telecommuting candidates and the equipment needed to support them.
  
  
• Obtain agency approval and make the official announcement.
  
  
• Train the employees and their supervisors.
  
  
• Have the supervisor and employee complete a workplace agreement and workplace safety checklist.
  
  
• Assess the results of the program for future reference.

Here is a sample self-certification safety checklist for home-based telecommuters from OPM, a sample workplace agreement for telecommuting from GSA, and telework documents from GSA.

See:

OPM site

GSA site