Sex, scandal, hiring freeze highlight Tom Temin’s 2016 commentaries
Federal News Radio counts down the top 10 commentaries of 2016 by Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
3. Freeze possibility has feds shivering
Get in a room full of federal human resources people and the question comes up inevitably: What if there’s a hiring freeze?
Someone worriedly asked it at my lunch table during the HCMG conference the other day. I piped up. “Absolutely nothing” will change if the Trump administration imposes a hiring freeze in January. First of all, a freeze would exempt so many functions as to exclude probably half the federal population in the first place. Agencies with funded openings would likely be able to go ahead.
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Tom Temin is host of the Federal Drive and has been providing insight on federal technology and management issues for more than 30 years.
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