Management
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Love it or hate it, but more federal employees are coming back into the office next month.
March 07, 2022 -
Discussion about the federal workforce rarely go three minutes, before someone laments the need to get young people into government. Yet three quarters of the federal workforce is over 40, a much higher percentage than in the private sector. So it may be no surprise that age discrimination complaints in government are more common than in the private sector.
March 04, 2022 -
Forbes Magazine's list of the 500 best mid-sized employers in the United States included a couple of federal agencies, among them the Government Publishing Office.
March 04, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employees who were exposed to COVID-19 while working can now join a class-action lawsuit.
March 04, 2022 -
The Biden administration is looking to the federal workforce to set an example for the rest of the country’s labor force by having more federal employees return to the office in April.
March 03, 2022 -
If the U.S. military's modernizing efforts don't go faster than its aging process, the country's got a problem.
March 03, 2022 -
Federal employees looking to appeal an adverse personnel action might not have to wait on the Merit Systems Protection Board much longer. The Senate ends a five-year streak in which the board lacked a quorum.
March 03, 2022 -
After digging out of a massive backlog of background investigations, agencies are walking a tightrope to modernize a decades-old process.
March 02, 2022 -
Karl Mathias, the CIO for the U.S. Marshals Service since 2015, will join HHS as its CIO on March 14.
March 02, 2022 -
Harrison Smith, co-director of the IRS Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office, said the agency must help industry partners understand what they want to accomplish.
March 02, 2022 -
The goal of CX is to garner customer feedback and emotions, not to develop more barriers and cumbersome protocols. The last thing organizations want to do is have their progress stalled by bureaucracy.
March 02, 2022 -
In just a few weeks the annual budget dance, this time for 2023, will start. People who follow these things closely predict the White House will request only a very small increase for the Defense Department, knowing Congress will plus it up anyway.
March 02, 2022 -
Financial management problems at the Defense Department show up year after year. Throw in problems at the Small Business Administration and a few other persistent issues, and it's impossible to accurately assess the state of federal finances. And that's the conclusion from the latest look at the government's consolidated statements conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
March 02, 2022 -
President Joe Biden is calling for more federal employees to return to the office, saying “significant progress” made fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has made it safer to do so.
March 01, 2022 -
The ongoing aggression by Vladimir Putin and his Russian armed forces has provoked a nearly all-of-government response from the United States, no less than nations geographically closer to Ukraine. That includes the State Department.
March 01, 2022