Federal Employee Resource Center

For federal employees, a government-issued phone is not personal space. It is federal property, controlled by agency IT rules, security policies, and ethics obligations. That is wh...

A new peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law gives federal employees language for something many have already felt in their bodies: the current att...

The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically expand the TSA Screening Partnership Program should get the attention of every federal employee—especially TSA officers. The pro...

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 experi...

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 import...

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 th...

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....

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 Co...

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 pane...

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 s...

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...

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 bec...