Audience

• Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Forest & Wildlife faculty, students, and staff; Russell Labs Hub staff

Overview

CALS allows employees to apply for remote work arrangements. They support a hybrid workplace environment for faculty and staff, while supporting the overall goals and mission of the college and UW-Madison as whole.

Renewal

FY 2025 Remote Work Agreements run from July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

Beginning in 2024, the time periods for the agreements shifted to July 1 - June 30th of the following year.

Employees must review and complete a new Remote Work Agreement form each year, even if there are no new changes from the prior work agreement.

The deadline for form submission is mid-June to allow time for approvals.

How to Renew Your Remote Work Agreement

Tips

• Plan ahead and allow plenty of time to complete your form and for approvals.
• Be patient; the system does not always behave as expected.
• Make sure to save the form frequently as you are working on it.

Steps

1. Contact your supervisor for approval.
2. Verify your correct home address is listed in the campus database.
3. Print out your last Remote Work Agreement form.  Use it as a guideline for completing this year's form.
4. Complete and submit the online Remote Work Agreement form.
5. Save a copy of the agreement in PDF format for your records.
6. Review the emails you receive from the system related to each processing step.

Resources

• Instructions for verifying your address information.
• Instructions for using the Remote Work Agreement system.

Approval Process

Once you have completed and submitted your Remote Agreement form online, the system will route the application information to:

• your supervisor or manager
• the assigned CALS HR rep

Your supervisor or manager, or the assigned CALS HR rep, may send the form back to you for correction or more information.

If that happens, you will need to make the corrections or add the info, and resubmit the form, and then the approval process starts again.

Reasonable Accommodations

For information on reasonable accommodations and how it relates to remote work agreements, please see the CALS HR page on remote work agreements.

Further Information

• CALS Remote Work Information
• UW-Madison Remote Work Policy

Questions

• Please contact your department’s HR generalist.