Government agencies have been promoting telework and alternative work schedules for more than a decade, but data show that only 7.6 percent of Federal employees actually telework. This paper examines the key challenges to telework in the Federal Government, and presents ICF's best practice-based STIR (Strategize, Transform, Implement, Recalibrate) methodology for agencies to use to design and execute successful programs customized to their unique mission and programmatic needs.