Office of Personnel Management
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The cyber hiring push led by the Office of the National Cyber Director comes as the government grapples with an estimated 3,000 open cybersecurity jobs.
September 04, 2024 -
A Federal Drive interview didn't quite get locality pay right. Sharp-eyed readers wrote in to let me know about it! Here's some of the straight dope.
August 29, 2024 -
Now in a hybrid work setting, leaders at OPM and USAID see both opportunities and challenges to creating ideal employee experience through process, IT changes.
August 27, 2024 -
OMB's new federal telework report is nearly 3,000 pages. But workplace experts said even in that much space, some agencies still aren't telling the right story.
August 26, 2024 -
Colleen Heller-Stein, the first career fed to lead the CHCO Council, sees human capital leaders as a bridge between agencies and OPM for the federal workforce.
August 22, 2024 -
From WEP/GPO repeal to getting a rational long term care insurance program, the work, pay, benefit and federal retirement issues never end.
August 22, 2024 -
Guy Cavallo, OPM’s chief information officer, said the goal of this initial project is to reduce paper and the time to process retirement applications.
August 21, 2024 -
The White House tasked agencies with updating their sexual misconduct response policies in 2021. But DOJ GEN says the steps to get there are unclear.
August 20, 2024 -
Job applicants, hiring managers and human resources professionals are the top three priorities in new guidance aiming to reform the federal hiring process.
August 14, 2024 -
In today's Federal Newscast, new instances of fraud in the government’s Flexible Spending Account program, FSAFEDS, are dwindling.
August 13, 2024 -
Hiring reform, telework, locality pay, official time and paid leave are a just a handful of the federal workforce priorities currently pending in Congress.
August 12, 2024 -
As Senate appropriators advance more spending bills, federal employees appear another step closer to seeing a 2% federal pay raise in 2025.
August 08, 2024 -
In new guidance, OPM said a thoughtful and intentional approach to federal remote work programs can significantly benefit employees who fit the bill.
August 07, 2024 -
For the second month in a row, OPM’s retirement claims backlog has increased. This comes after trending down for three consecutive months.
August 07, 2024 -
A significant majority of customers seeking two-thirds of the government services surveyed said they trusted the relevant agency.
August 01, 2024