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Fed survey: Are you happy?
President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget has a whimsical plan to survey government workers about their job satisfaction. It also wants to evaluate the well-being of enrollees in the federal health... Read more...
OPM backs off Fed SSN ban
The Office of Personnel Management thought it had a good idea for one brief moment when it announced plans last month to abandon the use of Social Security numbers in the federal systems in a move to... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Telework talk across government
There is an increased effort to promote telework in the federal government and to get employee feedback. The Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration have created a new... Read more...
OPM to define the cybersecurity job
It's one thing to talk about increasing the ranks of cybersecurity professionals. It's another to figure out what it is. The Office of Personnel Management is taking a stab at defining the job in a... Read more...
Federal telework hurt by IT security, budget pressures
A small percentage of federal employees now telecommute, and the numbers are growing very slowly, according to a new report by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The reasons are many, but it... Read more...
OPM to create database of top job candidates
The Office of Personnel Management is finally tapping into IT so agencies can find qualified people for mission-critical jobs in an easily accessible and centralized place. Until now, job applicants... Read more...
OPM abandons RetireEZ
This is a lesson for every agency about reaching too far in developing a project. It happened to the Office of Personnel Management, which had plans for an online retirement calculator that would... Read more...
OPM pushed to fast-track stimulus hiring
When was anything done quickly in the federal government? Well, now is the time for government to move swiftly, given the urgency of the economic crisis and the need to get federal workers in place... Read more...
