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The Chief Human Capital Officers Council recently got a revival from the Biden administration. They hope of help modernize the federal workforce.
The law, enacted in 1939, prevents political activity by appointed and career federal employees while on the job.
DHS' recent rulemaking for a 2014 law gives the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a lot of discretion in hiring cybersecurity people.
With the IRS possibly getting big budget boosts in the next few years, the question becomes whether it can hire the people it says it needs … with any reasonable speed.
Will the government have controls in place for the spending programs? Will it even have the basic capacity?
As Congress prepares to spend relatively more money than it spent on World War II, the question arises whether the federal workforce even has the capacity to carry out whatever programs the coming money will spawn.
If the Biden administration's 2022 budget request holds, many agencies would gain net new employees. That means good practices in onboarding new people will be more important than ever.
Many employees want to return to their offices not because they're so great, but because they want to renew human connections weakened over the past year.
Every government employee gets a step-pay increase whether they deserve it or not. Supervisors say too many people aren't suited to their jobs or even unwilling to do them.
The Office of Personnel Management is the object of a long list of reform recommendations from the National Academy of Public Administration. What Congress will do with them is anyone's guess.
Whatever plans federal agencies had to guide a return to offices, well, those seem to have evaporated months ago, Bob Tobias said.
After finishing a year dealing with a horrible pandemic, the new year opened with total breakdown at no less than the U.S. Capitol. But it's not hopeless.
For a few more ideas, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to American University Key Executive Leadership Program professor Bob Tobias.
A coalition of good-government groups has focused on the Trump administration plan for policy-related career jobs known as Schedule F. They feel it represents a general alienation of the federal workforce.