Alternate Work Site
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Oct 6, 2026
Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).
Framework senses
- §1
- Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).
- §1
- Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 4 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- A recognized security-control category covering any approved location where an employee conducts official organizational work outside the organization's primary or owned facility — including private residences, satellite offices, co-working spaces, government facilities, and hotel or similar transient environments. It is distinguished from "alternate processing site" (a DR/BCP concept for relocating IT systems) and from "remote access" (a network-layer concept): its focus is on the physical and operational security posture of the place of work itself. Frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53 (PE-17) and NIST SP 800-171 (3.10.6 / 03.10.06) treat it as a named control within the Physical Protection family, requiring organizations to enumerate approved sites, apply organization-defined security requirements to each, assess control effectiveness, and maintain an incident-reporting channel for personnel working at those locations.Drafted by the propose-term web lookup (PD-018); a curator confirms or replaces it.