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Gallup’s new analysis confirms what many federal employees already felt in their bodies before they saw it in a headline: 2025 was not an ordinary hard year. Federal workers experienced sharper declin...
Much of the current advice to federal employees about OPM’s proposed reduction-in-force changes begins and ends with one point: download your performance appraisals. That is important, but it is incom...
Federal workforce cuts can sound abstract until they reach the people responsible for keeping radioactive waste contained. The Government Accountability Office’s recent audit of the Department of Ener...
Federal employees know what it means to work inside rules. Procurement rules, ethics rules, chain-of-command rules, disclosure rules, and merit-system rules are not technicalities. They are the archit...
Federal employees have reason to pay close attention when the Government Accountability Office investigates access to agency databases. GAO is not a political commentator. It is Congress’s nonpartisan...
For Department of Veterans Affairs employees represented by AFGE’s National VA Council, the First Circuit’s recent ruling is more than procedural news. A unanimous three-judge panel left in place a pr...
Federal employees are used to workplace rules changing. But the reported use of Palantir technology to track USDA employees entering and leaving the office signals something more serious than ordinary...
Hurricane season begins June 1, and the anxiety inside FEMA is not abstract. According to a May 2026 letter from Representatives Bennie Thompson and Tim Kennedy, FEMA has lost more than 5,000 employee...
ProPublica’s recent video on Russell Vought is not ordinary political commentary. For federal employees, it is a warning about how ideas discussed in private strategy rooms can become workplace realit...
Federal employees at HHS are reportedly facing the first major rollout of Schedule Policy/Career, the revived version of what was formerly known as Schedule F. According to Government Executive, HHS s...
Most federal employees do not think about the Family and Medical Leave Act until a serious medical issue suddenly makes work impossible. By then, stress, fear, and paperwork can make it hard to think ...
The Department of Defense’s deferred resignation program was sold as a path toward government efficiency. But according to the facts described in the transcript, DoD lost 61,600 civilian employees thr...
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