Hiring/Retention

Federal News Network’s Workplace Reimagined 2024

Are you ready for success in a hybrid world?

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(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)State Department Foreign Service

Foreign Service makes candidate assessment fully remote to broaden hiring pool

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(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Kiyoshi Tanno)Washington DC/USA Mar 25 2019/Signboard of United States Department of Veterans Affairs(VA).The VA stands in front of Lafayette Square Park in the north of the White House.

VA looks to cut 10,000 positions from health care workforce, but seeks bigger budget in 2025

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OPM prioritizing pooled hiring, HR workforce in 2025 budget

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

DHS budget request forecasts big hiring goals for CBP, TSA

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Biden proposes 2% federal pay raise in 2025 budget request

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The Seal of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) imposed over a document.

OMB looks to hire more evaluation experts across government in FY 2025 budget plan

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SSA adds ‘episodic’ telework flexibility for agency employees

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White House Executive order

White House presses agencies to use apprenticeships for skills-based hiring

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IRS, telework, return-to-office

IRS gets pushback on its return-to-office plans — for going too far, and not far enough

Members of Congress say the IRS isn’t setting a high enough standard for in-office work, and that constituents remain unable to get their tax questions…

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Office of Personnel Management Director, Kiran Ahuja

Agencies get details on how to better recruit, retain military spouses

A new strategic plan from OPM and OMB comes as part of an executive order to support military spouses’ employment in the federal workforce.

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AI

Agencies should promote existing workplace flexibilities in federal AI hiring, OPM says

Agencies should offer pay bonuses, faster leave accrual and telework flexibilities, OPM said in new federal AI hiring guidance.

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