Part 4: What’s Happening Today with Federal Distance Work?

Submitted by on Mon, 06/08/2020 - 14:23

[Note: This column also appears in Washington Technology. It is the fourth in a series on how the COVID-19 crisis has changed how government works. Emily Craig and Michaela Drust, IBM, are co-authors of this column]

But will individual telework only be seen as a workaround until everyone returns to the office, or will agencies consciously decide to change how work will be done from now on, as distributed teams working from anywhere?

Weekly Roundup: June 1-5, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 13:04

Michael J. Keegan

Results-Driven Telework

Submitted by on Thu, 06/04/2020 - 11:22

A significant exception has been in Tennessee, which started aggressive telework policies several years ago. (This, of course, hasn’t included certain jobs, like correctional officers, where it is truly impossible to effectively break up an inmate altercation from a home office).

Government Performance Management

John Kamensky, Praja Trivedi, and Dan Chenok, India

Managing Risk: Insights from GAO’s High-Risk List

Submitted by on Tue, 06/02/2020 - 14:40
This blog series emphasizes the critical importance risk management must play in the managing of government programs. When agencies don’t manage risk effectively they put their operations in jeopardy and expose themselves to a range of hazards from fraud, waste, and abuse to network intrusion and the list goes on.

Jeremy Gutsche

Submitted by on Mon, 06/01/2020 - 09:58

Jeremy Gutsche, MBA, CFA, is a New York Times bestselling author, chaos expert, innovation keynote speaker and CEO of Trend Hunter, the world's largest trend platform, with more than 3 billion views total views from 150,000,000 people. Over the last decade, he has helped more than 700 brands, billionaires, CEOs and NASA in the quest to make innovation and change actually happen. As a top innovation keynote speaker, Jeremy has the #1 most-watched innovation keynote videos on the internet, inspiring over 20,000,000 people online and 514,000 people at 685 live events.

Weekly Roundup: May 25-29, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 08:23

John Kamensky

Promoting Employee Engagement

Submitted by on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 10:05

When President Obama took office, it was the depth of the Great Recession and he froze pay and bonuses for the civil service to reflect the economic downturn across the country.  However, the Administration undertook several efforts to improve the working environment for employees by:

Part 3: What’s Been Government’s Experience with Distance Work Over the Past Decade?

Submitted by on Tue, 05/26/2020 - 11:26

[Note: This column also appears in Washington Technology. It is the third in a series on how the COVID-19 crisis has changed how government works.]

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