Hiring/Retention

Biden’s DEIA strategy seeks to better understand federal employees’ challenges

The administration will elevate the role of chief diversity officers to help lead agency DEIA implementation teams and conduct quarterly updates to track…

Workforce

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden administration details initial vision, three top priorities under President’s Management Agenda

Management

FILE - The Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington, on June 5, 2015. The Department of Homeland Security says the U.S. faces a

One in four DHS employees are veterans. The department wants that number to grow.

Hiring/Retention

State Department

State Dept. CDO makes diversity top management priority under data strategy

Big Data

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Time for the ‘great resignation?’ Not for the federal government, CHCOs say

Workforce

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Yearly processing times for federal retirement climb to record high

Retirement

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke

FILE - In this June 23, 2014, file photo, a recruiter, at left, takes the resume of an applicant during a job fair, in Philadelphia. On Thursday, May 11, 2017, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits the week before. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

OPM hiring policy gives agencies new tool to more easily recruit recent graduates

Hiring/Retention

Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

With agencies preparing for the future of work, Ahuja says OPM is ready to help

Workforce

Making diversity, equity and inclusion agile, accountable will help its adoption, agencies say

Workforce

Building and transferring expert knowledge within federal agencies

Commentary

Groups of people with shared interests or aims. Concept of the diversity of people's talents and skills associated with different brains.

Intelligence community workforce is more diverse, but still struggles with retention and promotion

Workforce

Could AI help stave off the brain drain of federal retirement?

Natural language processing and automation are some of the technologies agencies are considering both to cope with an aging out of the federal workforce.

Retirement

AbilityOne, workers with disabilities, people with disabilities

AbilityOne seeks to end minimum wage exception for disabled workers at nonprofit contractors

Nonprofit contractors employing people with disabilities through the AbilityOne program have not been bound to pay minimum wages, with many employees consistently…

Pay

Agency safety and reentry plans varied considerably during initial days of the pandemic, GAO finds

Management

Agencies initially moved through reentry phases at different rates, and the phases themselves had different characteristics and criteria, the Government Accountability Office said. Those plans improved and grew more comprehensive and consistent with more guidance from the new Safer Federal Workforce Task Force.