Workforce

  • Federal agencies are under the gun to develop strategies for moving many of their IT functions into the cloud.

    July 02, 2010
  • Imagine working for a place where the boss could give you a bonus or pay raise for good performance, or freeze your pay and dock your annual leave if you repeatedly fail to measure up. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says imagine you are working there because it\'s coming your way.

    July 02, 2010
  • Dave Owens President, AFGE Air Force Local 1101 Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America\'s Future Tracy Van Slyke Director, The Media Consortium Author, \"Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics\"

    July 01, 2010
  • A new report from the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton outlines the importance of telework, and what the federal government can do to increase the amount of feds to telecommute. We get details from Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Abe Zwany.

    July 01, 2010
  • Agency graduates first class from a training series that participants say will help them meet challenges they face on the job every day.

    June 30, 2010
  • Are acquisition professionals stressed out? That’s what Andrew Krzmarzick wants to know. He recently posted a blog entry on GovLoop, asking the question of all participants. These stories are part of our daily Dorobek Must…

    June 30, 2010
  • This week, Mike Causey talks with Dan Adcock, legislative director of the National Active Retired Federal Employees, about where legislation is in the House that would allow you to move unused annual leave into your TSP after leaving federal service. Then, Randy Erwin of the National Federation of Federal Employees talks about why some in Congress are keen on freezing federal pay and benefits. Encore presentation

    June 30, 2010
  • Auditors looked at 117 employee conversations to career positions from political ones and found most followed the rules. OPM is reviewing five of the seven that GAO determined to be improper.

    June 30, 2010
  • As agencies try to hire hundreds of trained cybersecurity experts in the coming years, there are questions about whether that need can be met. Some observers wonder whether there really are enough cybersecurity workers.

    June 30, 2010
  • Undersecretary says contractor profits won\'t suffer, since Pentagon was encouraging cost cutting already.

    June 29, 2010
  • To be sure, bargaining and arbitration rights are at the top of the list, but what else would AFGE like from TSA and its new administrator? We ask Brian Dewyngaert, chief of staff for the American Federation of Government Employees.

    June 29, 2010
  • The first graduates of a new leadership training program run by the Office of Personnel Management received their certificates yesterday. They are, as OPM Director John Berry describes them, the \"tip of the spear\" of a cadre of up-and-coming federal workers who are honing their leadership skills to be the next generation of agency leaders and executives who will run the government.

    June 29, 2010
  • Agency releases new guides to help hiring managers implement the new approach, which will replace the rule of three.

    June 28, 2010
  • WFED\'s Max Cacas reports.

    June 28, 2010