Kiran Ahuja

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OPM expects busy Open Season standing up USPS health insurance marketplace in 2024

The Office of Personnel Management expects to receive a much higher volume of calls during next year’s Open Season. That’s because a Postal Service…

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If agencies let cyber employees temporarily leave their jobs, will it keep them on staff longer?

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House lawmakers pressure OPM’s Ahuja on telework, FEHB, hiring reform and more

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OPM lays out hybrid ‘future of work’ vision for agencies

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‘More work to be done’: OPM details upcoming goals to advance federal DEIA

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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)FILE - In this June 12, 2019, file photo, clouds roll over the U.S. Capitol dome as dusk approaches in Washington. The committee charged with helping Republicans wrest control of the House next year raised $45.4 million over the last three months, a record quarterly haul during a year without a national election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Reintroduced bills aim to fix hiring process, Social Security benefits for feds

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Agencies get clearer direction from OPM, OMB to expand early-career pipeline

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Governmentwide chief diversity officer eyes long-term plans to advance DEIA

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House Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to the office

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced the SHOW UP Act, which would require agencies to return to their pre-pandemic…

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FILE - People walk up the steps even though the National Archives is closed with the partial government shutdown Dec. 22, 2018, in Washington. The nominee to head the National Archives is set to face an abnormally contentious Senate confirmation hearing this week. President Joe Biden nominated Colleen Shogan to take over the nation's record-keeping agency last month. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

NARA becomes latest agency to expand telework in new union agreement

The National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with its union to extend telework eligibility to all permanent agency…

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workforce changes may still lie ahead for federal employees in 2023

Agencies’ ‘future of work’ plans, priorities in the President’s Management Agenda and hiring reform efforts defined 2022 for federal employees.

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