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Cut through the jargon and get the clarity you need to stay a step ahead of agency politics. Each article unpacks new policy shifts, court rulings, and workplace trends, then turns them into actionable tactics—so you can head off discipline, invoke EEO or whistleblower protections with confidence, and keep your documentation airtight. We also archive our most popular social-media explainer threads here, giving you the same insights followed by more than 150,000 people online even if you never scroll on those sites. Read, prepare, and keep your federal career firmly in your control.
For many federal employees returning from Thanksgiving with a knot in the stomach about what their agency might do next, that feeling is not misplaced. Small shifts in the disciplinary process can hav...
When Congress marks up workforce legislation, federal employees often hear about it only after the rules have already shifted. Today’s House Oversight Committee session is a reminder that the civil se...
When a headline suggests the Pentagon may have crossed the line into a war crime, the instinctive reaction many federal employees feel isn’t just shock — it’s recognition. Because beneath the military...
When a headline suggests the Pentagon may have crossed the line into a war crime, the instinctive reaction many federal employees feel isn’t just shock — it’s recognition. Because beneath the military...
Federal employees often move through the year feeling unseen, especially after events like shutdowns, staffing losses, or politically driven restructuring. When programs shrink and workloads expand, i...
Federal employees have spent the year navigating unprecedented disruption: DOGE rollouts, chaotic reorganizations, and constant uncertainty about missions, staffing, and the future of civil service pr...
Federal employees have spent the last year living inside a case study of what happens when political ambition outruns legal authority. The Department of Government Efficiency—DOGE—arrived with a chain...
When news broke that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had effectively collapsed, many federal employees felt a surge of relief. But the reporting behind DOGE’s implosion tells a far more...
Federal employees have long relied on a RIF system grounded in objective factors—tenure, veterans’ preference, and credible measures of service time. The new OPM proposal rewrites that foundation. Und...
When an administration decides it doesn’t like an independent watchdog, the pressure rarely comes all at once. More often, it arrives through the quiet weaponization of funding, structure, and process...
Federal employees know better than anyone: process matters. Whether it’s a performance-improvement plan, a disciplinary proposal, or an MSPB appeal, the government’s actions only hold when the rules a...
CDC and HHS employees have been forwarding the new telework FAQ with a kind of stunned disbelief—and for good reason. The document attempts to cap all telework at 80 hours per year and declares that m...
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