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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.

 
OPM’s “Five Things” Directive: What Should Federal Employees Do? career protection federal employee rights federal employment opm policy workplace mindfulness Mar 11, 2025

If you've been keeping up with the latest federal workplace developments, you may have noticed a wave of uncertainty surrounding OPM’s new directive: the so-called “Five Things” email. Employees acros...

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Federal Probationary Employees: OPM Walks Back Directive—What Now? federal employee rights federal employment law mspb appeal opm policy probationary termination Mar 04, 2025

If you're a probationary federal employee—or know someone who is—pay close attention. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has just issued a new memo clarifying that agencies, not OPM, have discre...

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OPM’s Last-Minute Shutdown: What Federal Employees Need to Know federal employee rights federal employment mindfulness at work opm policy Feb 13, 2025

If you’ve been following the latest developments with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), you know how unpredictable federal employment policies can be. Recently, thousands of federal employees ...

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