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More House appropriators target federal telework, office space

The 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill includes language specifically targeting federal telework reporting requirements.

Congress

Christophe Megevand, of Schuman Cheese, New Jersey, judges the Rhined Swiss Style Cheese category in the opening day of the World Championship Cheese Contest at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Whine, cheese make the return-to-office debate pungent

Federal Report

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Still ‘long way to go’ after 13% bump in federal early-career employees

Hiring/Retention

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OMB holding agencies ‘accountable’ for 50% in-office presence

Workforce

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HHS proves NOFOs can be less complex, easier for applicants

Management

OMB’s new guidance, RFI boost grant modernization efforts

Management

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Biden administration locks in plans aiming to block Schedule F for good

Workforce

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Heading into 2024, OPM ‘fundamentally rethinking’ federal hiring

Hiring/Retention

Telework changes, hiring reforms of 2023 charting a course into the new year

Workforce

Federal agencies flag 1,200 AI uses cases, but see few actually implemented

Artificial Intelligence

Jason Miller, the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, highlighted federal customer experience successes at a White House event on Dec. 6. (Photo by Jason Miller/FNN)

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OMB’s Miller wants to ‘destroy’ the saying ‘good enough for government work’

Management

Biden makes formal plans for 2024 federal pay raise

President Biden has officially recommended a 5.2% federal pay raise for most civilian employees in 2024, including a 0.5% locality pay adjustment.

Pay

How a few agency leaders are defining, measuring ‘meaningful’ in-person work

After the White House called on agencies to increase “meaningful” in-person work at agency headquarter, federal leaders are considering how to balance,…

Workforce

‘This would be wild’: Officials lay out ambitious goals for federal employee vetting

Hiring/Retention

The new goals for positions requiring a security clearance or a public trust determination would drastically cut down the time it takes to onboard individuals.