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The Interior Department is putting together a future of work plan to determine what its needs and lessons learned are regarding telework, office space and employee engagement after the investments made during the pandemic.
Read moreThe Agriculture Department's chief human capital officer shares her thoughts on how to keep employee satisfaction high.
The past couple of years have seen tectonic changes in the work force; both from the perspective of employers and employees. COVID-19 and the quarantine saw a work force that was already moving towards flexible schedules move to telework and remote work. Now, those changes are becoming the norm.
Agencies can gain a great deal of effectiveness if they ensure good onboarding, provisioning and high-quality information technology tools for their own employees.
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What happens to furloughed employees during a government shutdown?
During the last government shutdown in 2018 and 2019, roughly 800,000 of the 2.1 million civilian federal employees at the time were furloughed.
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Congressmen raise concerns about child care during government shutdown
In today’s Federal Newscast: Two congressmen are raising concerns about child care for essential workers during a government shutdown. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a bill to keep the D.C. court system open during a government shutdown. And a conference committee prepares to hammer out differences over the annual defense authorization bill.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration fails its own lie detector policy
Dozens of Drug Enforcement Administration agents are on the job without having taken a mandatory polygraph examination or, in some cases, they failed the test. This, according to a look-see by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General. For more, and what’s happened since this discovery, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
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USPS ends peak holiday surcharge as it cuts year-end demand for temporary hires
The Postal Service is looking to cut costs by building up its career workforce and hiring far fewer temporary, seasonal employees to prepare for the year-end holiday season.
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IRS hiring 3,700 enforcement agents ‘doable,’ if it learns from past recruiting challenges
The IRS is staffing up its enforcement operations to ensure wealthy individuals and large corporations pay the taxes they owe the federal government.
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Telework and Schedule F are top of mind for NTEU’s new national president
Among the looming threat of a government shutdown, the National Treasury Employees Union also plans to advocate for federal telework and push against Schedule F in the coming months.
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The nation’s ‘Mr. Whistleblower’ is nominated to a new a referee slot
Luckily, most federal employees do not have contact with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), which deals with, among other things, bad treatment by supervisors, whistleblower retaliation, and mistreated veterans. But when you need the OSC, you can have a powerful ally, which has been led for six years by Henry Kerner, who will be moving on soon, as his term up expires. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked to Henry Kerner.
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Thousands of new highly paid IRS accountants will help ferret out tax cheats
In today’s Federal Newscast: Homeland Security advisers are calling for technology investments that support remote work. A congressional investigation continues into potential COVID-19 record-keeping violations at NIH. And the IRS is in search of accountants for high-paying jobs to ferret out tax cheats.
