The Office of Personnel Management wants to increase by 50 percent the number of federal employees teleworking by the end of fiscal 2011.

That goal — which OPM outlined in its 2010 to 2015 strategic plan released Friday — would increase the number of teleworkers to more than 154,000 over the 102,900 employees who teleworked at least some of the time in fiscal 2009.

OPM also wants 80 percent of executive branch agencies to meet goals on speeding up the hiring process by the end of fiscal 2011. OPM has not announced what each department's hiring reform goals will be, but the government now takes about five months to hire the average new employee. White House Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients said last week that he eventually wants that time frame cut in half.

OPM said it wants to see more hiring managers satisfied with the quality of applicants they have to choose from, and increased satisfaction from job applicants.

The OPM plan also said the government needs to improve its retirement claims processing and cut the amount of incomplete retirement records. OPM said it wants the percentage of incomplete records it receives from agencies to be less than 38 percent by the end of fiscal 2010, 35 percent by the end of fiscal 2011, and down to 30 percent by the end of fiscal 2012.

OPM's strategic plan also calls for making it easier for veterans to find federal jobs, improving diversity, improving the security clearance process, increasing training, improving labor-management relations, and modernizing the federal pay system.

"I am convinced we can make bold changes," OPM Director John Berry said in the plan's introduction. "Achieving the strategic goals outlined in this plan may not be easy, but doing so is absolutely necessary to make the federal government the model employer in the United States, and OPM its model agency."

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