Commentary

While most agencies currently use multiple cloud platforms, 75% report that managing multiple clouds will be a top challenge over the next five years.

Suppose you or one of your kids wants to go, or return to college this summer or fall, but your budget needs a little transfusion, like funds from an outside source.

DHS morale numbers are unlikely to rise without significant reforms on multiple levels.

But the one way to anger many feds is to tell them or remark that they are lucky to have such a good pension — then stand back.

Draft rumors aside, here’s a few real facts about the Selective Service System.

Thanks to the booming stock market the number of federal-postal workers with $1 million or more Thrift Savings Plan accounts jumped to 49,620 at the end of 2019.

Agencies will likely miss out on the symbiotic relationship between performance and engagement. Strategically, the better approach is to integrate these two critically important human capital processes by making performance management the centerpiece of the employee engagement strategy.

The Census Bureau pays enumerators less so for the work than for where they do the work.

Many people decided to ride out the Great Recession so they could miss the downside and return to the TSP’s C, S and I stock funds when things got better. Eleven years later, some still haven’t returned.

The Coalition for Government Procurement has been a strong supporter of an unpriced schedule in the name of efficiency.

Given GSA Administrator Emily Murphy’s goal of transparency, the Coalition for Government Procurement says it was surprised by the recent disappearance of GSA’s online staff directory from the agency’s website.

For many January is a hope-springs-eternal transition time. But there are things members of the federal family can, and should, be doing that will save money.

New-to-Washington political appointees, hoping to dilute or eliminate teleworking in their agencies, maybe got a dose of reality this week.

While your income will likely go down in retirement, moving to a more tax-friendly state could increase the cash value of your annuity.