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Air Force pauses myEval for performance reviews until further notice
“We get it, folks. We have seen the memes and the jokes,” Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass said on Facebook.
Mandate to momentum: Catalyzing customer experience in government
Leaders must adopt the people-centered mindset that the discipline of customer experience requires, focusing not just on citizens and residents but also on the government employees who do the work of serving the public.
By Sydney Heimbrock, Qualtrics
Performance evaluation in a year of upheaval
Teleworking and minimal or sporadic in-person attendance have several implications for the performance evaluation cycle.
By Martha Kesler, Kotter, Katy Paul-Chowdhury, Kotter and Angela Carsten, Defense Acquisition University
Appeals court overturns MSPB precedent in performance-based removals
Agencies must prove that an employee was performing poorly prior to an improvement period in order to justify firing that employee, under a U.S. Court of Appeals decision.
By Jessie Bur
Trump administration enlists supercomputers to fight coronavirus
The effort includes government, industry and academia as the Trump administration looks to speed up coronavirus research.
By Andrew Eversden
Do small businesses lack a voice in the federal marketplace?
Witnesses told the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Infrastructure of challenges they faced, as well as opportunities for improvement.
By Chloe Rogers
Agencies encouraged to adopt ‘rigorous’ employee evaluations
The Office of Personnel Management has encouraged agencies to create defined metrics for determining whether an employee fulfills, fails or meets the expectations for their positions.
By Jessie Bur
Trump goes after federal worker pay ... again
The Trump administration is once again calling for a federal pay freeze as part of a 'strengthening the federal workforce' campaign.
By Jessie Bur
OPM needs to better communicate employee performance practices
The Office of Personnel Management needs to do a better job of communicating employee performance best practices, a Government Accountability Office report found.
By Jessie Bur
OPM expands flexibility for senior feds’ performance reviews
A new certification process out of the Office of Personnel Management will give agencies more flexibility for evaluating senior-level employee performance.
By Jessie Bur
Feds are confident in mission, less so in performance recognition
The 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey received positive responses to questions about agency mission, but revealed that feds were unhappy with performance rewards.
By Jessie Bur