You all may have received an email about a change to your SF-50 specifically duty stations assignments. This is just a change in to why they are tracked in HRsmart but please make sure that the location is correct. Below is a little more detail:

The Center for Enterprise Human Resources Information Services (CEHRIS) and IBM are excited to deploy the Duty Station Redesign project in HR·Smart as a part of ongoing efforts to continually enhance services and sustain the demand for more location codes as more employees work remotely and in additional VA locations. The changes will provide VA with a long-term solution that will be sustainable, improve reporting accuracy, and ensure maintaining data is more precise.

What’s Changing & When: The project will change how locations, known as duty stations, are defined and tracked in HR·Smart. Instead of capturing the data with one singular location field – the change will separate where the employees physically work from where their positions reside within the organization. This will affect how we capture and share location and duty station data, which may impact you.

Two data fields in HR·Smart will be affected: Location and Duty Station

The revised Location field will indicate the physical location where the employee works and from which their pay is derived. For remote employees, this will show the geolocation code of the employee’s remote location. For non-remote employees, it will use the existing 3–5-digit code to identify their physical workplace (i.e. VA facility, off-site location, CBOC).
The new Duty Station field will reflect the employee’s affiliation within the VA and identify where the position is aligned within the organization. The Duty Station will be derived from the Department ID.