Office of Personnel Management
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The Office of Personnel Management is extending its Results Only Work Environment, or ROWE, pilot through 2011. Justin Johnson, deputy chief of staff at OPM, told Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller about OPM\'s decision to extend the program and how the ROWE pilot is going to date.
October 07, 2010 -
With the majority of federal employees located outside of the Washington, D.C. metro area, how are feds in regional offices answering the White House\'s mandates regarding the greening of government? The answer: the Federal Executive Boards organized groups of executives who find ways to collaborate across agency lines.
October 07, 2010 -
OPM said the rise in costs is lower than the industry standard. Employees who choose family coverage will see an increase of $22.90 a month. Open season starts Nov. 8.
October 01, 2010 -
The Social Security Administration is renewing a computer matching program with the Office of Personnel Management, the CCH website reports.
October 01, 2010 -
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month officially kicks off today. In coming weeks, federal officials are expected to launch a number of public programs to raise awareness of the importance of securing the nation\'s computer networks for both government and private industry. But some officials also are using it as an opportunity to ask, \"Where will the cybersecurity workers of tomorrow come from?\"
October 01, 2010 -
Are you going to spend your first months in retirement traveling, playing or relaxing...or will you become obsessed with watching your bank balance? Mike Causey says that is what happens to a growing number of retirees.
September 29, 2010 -
What if the government hit you with a pay cut of 20 to 40 percent for an extended period? That\'s not a threat. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it\'s more like a promise for many recent federal and postal retirees.
September 28, 2010 -
Last week Republicans proposed a hiring freezeof non-security federal workers. That\'s just the latest GOP effort to target federal workers\' pay and hiring. So far these efforts haven\'t gone far, but that could change with a GOP takeover of Congress after the mid-term elections, The Washington Post reports.
September 27, 2010 -
We\'re about two months out from the third annual Federal Hispanic Career Advancement Summit, November 29th and 30th at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.
September 24, 2010 -
Both employee unions and agencies say certain phrases in President Obama\'s executive order creating these committees need to be better defined. VA deputy secretary Gould will lead an effort to bring some precision to terms such as pre-decisional, to make sure everyone is working from the same sheet of paper. National Council on Federal-Labor Management Relations also details first set of bargaining pilots, called B-1.
September 22, 2010 -
John Berry, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss the uptick in the number of vets being hired into the federal ranks and how the overall hiring reform process is going.
September 17, 2010 -
More than 32,800 vets were hired by federal agencies in the first six months of FY2010.
September 17, 2010 -
The head of the government\'s top personnel office thinks the future looks bright for fixing the hiring process, which has been called broken, in the federal sector.
September 15, 2010 -
HP to Buy Cyber Security Company, Adobe Flash under attack
September 14, 2010 -
In federal hiring, officials always have to strike a balance: fill the job as quickly as possible, while looking for the right candidate from as big a pool of applicants as possible. A new report suggests evaluating candidates is the weakest part of the entire hiring process.
August 27, 2010