Tom Temin Commentary
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Two agencies had widely differing culture problems, and senior civil servants fixed them with the basics
July 27, 2023 -
The push and pull over how much feds should return to the office seems headed to a grudging settlement.
July 20, 2023 -
Congress's latest run at dictating Veterans Affairs firing practices may not work much better than the last law that tried
July 13, 2023 -
Supreme Court ruling comes with a dissent that could lead to a constitutional challenge to qui tam cases
July 06, 2023 -
As Independence Day nears, let's think about federal employees doing things to agency missions and U.S. ideals
June 29, 2023 -
Portrait gallery of Tom Temin's 4th annual Motorcycle Ride for Charity Friday, June 23.
June 27, 2023 -
Each year the station stages this event to benefit the Federal Employees Education and Assistance Fund and Friends of Patients at the NIH.
June 27, 2023 -
Acquisition is more than a routine, if complicated, administrative process. It takes skill, collaboration and strategic thinking.
June 22, 2023 -
Understaffing everywhere you look is making employees work into overdrive
June 15, 2023 -
Everyone is a customer at some point. And everyone serves customers at some point.
June 08, 2023 -
Bureau of Prisons path forward is not complicated, but it does go steeply up hill.
May 26, 2023 -
Treasury has a way to ensure continuity of Social Security benefits payments without the need to raise the debt ceiling
May 25, 2023 -
BOP must do simple things to makes itself a better place to work: Get to full staffing. Hire the right people. Update crumbling facilities. Sharpen the anti-recidivism problems. Easy to visualize, difficult to do.
May 19, 2023 -
I think it's safe to say, from here on out, people will have the choice to either "go in," or telework at least some portion of the week.
May 18, 2023 -
People are overwhelmed with digital input and endless meetings. Artificial intelligences holds promise for fixing it.
May 10, 2023