TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
01/30/12 11:58 pm ET
Federal employees with professional or doctorate degrees earn about 23 percent less than those with the same degrees in the private sector, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office. The report, released Monday, found that overall, federal employees are paid an...>>
01/27/12 02:28 pm ET
The Office of Personnel Management has created a telework training package designed to help agencies meet the mandates of a 2010 telework law. In a letter sent last week to chief human capital officers, OPM Director John Berry said that agencies can now access...>>
01/26/12 09:56 am ET
Are you eager to share your thoughts about your boss, your pay and benefits, telework or the use of technology and collaboration tools, with your agency leadership? Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry announced Friday that the 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint survey will,...>>
01/27/12 12:36 pm ET
Federal employees started off this week with their first snow-related delay of the winter season, and many feds are still concerned about what winter weather will mean for their commute and their ability to perform their jobs. The good news is that many government...>>
01/25/12 01:19 pm ET
Salaries for government IT workers were slightly below the national average in 2011, giving agencies less of a competitive edge when it comes to recruiting top notch IT skills, according to a new survey by Dice. Dice's 2011-2012 salary survey found that salaries for...>>
01/24/12 01:50 pm ET
Technology professionals on average earned salary increases of more than 2 percent in 2011, their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to a new survey by Dice.com. Dice's 2011-2012 annual salary survey of more than 18,000 IT professionals found that after two years...>>
01/23/12 01:19 pm ET
Federal budget cuts are causing many agencies to scrap large traditional office spaces for open workstations, telework, and "office hoteling," where employees reserve desks as they need them. Federal Times reports that Bart Bush, the assistant commissioner for the Office of Client Solutions at...>>
01/19/12 02:23 pm ET
Federal employees, retirees and their families will soon be able to securely access their personal health data from the websites of their health plans, thanks to the rollout of new Blue Button technology, the Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday. While most federal health...>>
01/18/12 01:50 pm ET
The Office of Personnel Management has sent to Congress a new strategic plan for improving retirement services and reducing the retirement backlog, a large part of which focuses on hiring new staff and upgrading technology. The plan, unveiled Wednesday, involves a multifaceted approach that...>>
01/19/12 11:24 am ET
Training and investing in the IT workforce is among the top priorities for federal chief information officers in the coming year, particularly as the potential for a federal hiring freeze could prevent IT leaders from bringing on critical IT skills. A new survey of...>>
01/17/12 11:48 am ET
We are now in the third week of the new year, and tech hiring managers already are pretty clear on what types of professionals they are looking to hire in 2012. This month's edition of the Dice report indicates that tech developers dominate the...>>
01/13/12 08:56 am ET
A cybersecurity education nonprofit is expanding a program designed to help aspiring professionals to prepare for careers in cybersecurity and obtain special cyber certifications. (ISC)2 announced Thursday the expansion of its Associate of (ISC)2 program, which allows aspiring information security professionals to sit for...>>
01/11/12 12:08 pm ET
Nearly half of federal IT workers are using their personal mobile devices to perform work-related functions daily, according to a new survey. The survey of 200 federal IT workers by marketing company Bluetext found that 45 percent of respondents are using mobile devices for...>>
01/09/12 02:27 pm ET
Members of Generation Y are using social networking websites like Facebook for personal over professional reasons, yet most are using their profiles as an extension of professional life, according to a new study by branding firm Millennial Branding. The study of nearly 4 million...>>
01/06/12 11:41 am ET
Federal employees have been under a two-year freeze to annual across-the-board pay increases since last year, and the prospects for next year are not looking much brighter: President Obama is set to propose a 0.5 percent pay increase as part of his 2013 budget...>>
01/06/12 08:51 am ET
Know an outstanding federal employee who deserves to be recognized for his or her achievements? The Partnership for Public Service announced on Wednesday that nominations are now open for the 2012 Service to America Medals program. Medal categories include homeland security; career achievement; call...>>
01/04/12 11:47 am ET
President Obama on Dec. 31 signed legislation that requires the government to create and maintain a centralized database of people who have finished or are about to finish internships at federal agencies. The Federal Internship Improvement Act, which was included in the National Defense...>>
01/03/12 01:04 pm ET
Federal pay in 2011 grew at its slowest pace in one decade, in part due to a partial pay freeze. But overall, federal IT workers are still faring better than their counterparts in the private sector, most of whom have seen flat salaries over...>>
