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Brittany Ballenstedt
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Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
Bring Your Own Device Plans Due by September
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FROM NEXTGOV
The White House on Wednesday released a digital strategy that focuses more on ensuring citizens have mobile access to government websites and data than it does on ensuring mobile access for federal employees. But one area in particular that the strategy looks to advance for federal employees is ensuring agencies ...
IT Workers in Hot Demand
May 24, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
There’s more good news on the jobs front for IT professionals -- the unemployment rate in their field is about half of the national average and is a slight improvement over where it was one year ago, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Tech Employment ...
Government Becoming More Attractive to New IT Grads
May 23, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Government agencies have moved up a few spots on a list that gauges where current and future IT grads want to work after graduation. According to a new survey by Universum of nearly 60,000 college students, federal agencies such as the FBI (11), National Security Agency (12), NASA (13), the ...
Telework's Return-on-Investment
May 22, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Being able to measure the return-on-investment of telework programs at federal agencies is key to moving telework forward, but less than half of agencies actually have these measurements in place, according to new poll results. More than 530 registrants participated in a webinar sponsored by Telework Exchange on Thursday, and ...
Industry and Feds Find Common Ground on BYOD Strategies
May 21, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
While government and industry are often not on the same page when it comes to where federal telecommunications is headed, there is one area where they can agree: BYOD, or bring your own device, strategies will be largely adopted across the federal landscape within the next two years, according to ...
Does Telework Work?
May 21, 2012 Since the passage of the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act, it’s likely that your agency is implementing telework in some form or fashion. The question is, how will your agency know if that telework program is producing results? Cindy Auten, general manager for Telework Exchange, said in an interview with Wired ...
Does Telework Work?
May 18, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Since the passage of the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act, it’s likely that your agency is implementing telework in some form or fashion. The question is, how will your agency know if that telework program is producing results? Cindy Auten, general manager for Telework Exchange, said in an interview with Wired ...
Fewer Female Techs -- Again
May 16, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
The number of women in IT jobs in the U.S. has decreased each year for the past three years, and many CIOs report that they have no women in management within their IT organizations, according to a new report. The survey by Robert Nash USA of 450 U.S. IT leaders, ...
Trimming Bonuses
May 16, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Besides being hit by a two-year pay freeze, federal employees also saw a decrease in the amounts paid out for bonuses last year, according to federal data. Asbury Park Press reports that the federal government paid roughly $439 million in employee bonuses in 2011, down $43 million since new austerity ...
Young Techies For Hire
May 15, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Agencies will soon gain access to a list of young IT professionals available for hire under the government’s new Technology Fellows Program. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel said the Chief Information Officers Council is currently evaluating a group of applications for the 2012 class and expects agencies to begin selecting candidates ...
