NASA Town Hall (Update: Video Online)
NASA Weekly Update from the Administrator – Aug. 17, 2020
“This week the agency’s COVID-19 Response leadership and I will record a town hall to answer your questions and provide an update on the status of the agency. If you’d like to submit a question, please visit https://www.nasa.gov/townhall before the submission window closes tomorrow, Aug. 18, at noon EDT. You’ll receive a NASA INC message with a link to the video once it is available for viewing Thursday, Aug. 20.”
NASA Associate Administrator Memo: Moving Forward Together; Next Agency Town Hall,
“On Wednesday, Aug. 19, I will join Administrator Bridenstine, Deputy Administrator Morhard, and other agency leaders, to answer your questions about how we move forward together.”
Keith’s note: The questions used to be available here but NASA has removed the link. They ere all about COVID-19 and teleworking. If anyone has a link to the archived event we’d appreciate it if you’d post in in the comments.
The questions submitted in advance of the upcoming 20 August @NASA agency wide Town Hall are interesting – https://t.co/4U9tW122t7 pic.twitter.com/huHvoDNTgD
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 17, 2020
A question from the peanut gallery: how are these Town Hall events regarded by the folks working for NASA? Are attitudes fairly uniform, or is there a discernible division, perhaps along professional lines, or other definable group? Are they regarded as honest attempts by management, or something else?
Maybe questions without answers that can be generalized.
at some centers if you look at the questions for their local town hall there are definitely two vocal camps. let us go back to work on site its all a hoax/suck it up and stop being scared vs let us telework for a while/stop with the two week NET moves since teleworking is going well and conditions aren’t improving. tensions are high and the questions have been snarky and some flippant (asking about the deer population)
I was impressed by the Administrator’s one-word response to the question about people being allowed to continue teleworking without revealing personal health and/or family responsibility information: “Yes.”
Good on him, and I hope all Center and project management take note.