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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.
OPM calls on agencies to submit telework stats
November 2, 2012
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The Office of Personnel Management is making its annual call for federal agencies to submit their telework data online, in an effort to gauge progress on telework programs. In a letter Monday to agency human resources directors, Angela Bailey, associate director of employee services at OPM, asked agency telework managing ...
Six desks for every 10 workers of the future?
November 2, 2012
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A desk for every federal employee might soon become a relic of the past. By 2020, U.S. organizations are projected to reduce office space by almost one-fifth and will provide just six desks for every ten office workers, with each of those workers accessing the corporate IT network from an ...
DHS seeks cyber fellows
November 1, 2012
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The Homeland Security Department has created a new fellowship program designed to attract recent college graduates into cybersecurity careers. Federal News Radio reported that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday during a discussion sponsored by Washington Post Live that the new Secretarial Honors Program will hire about 50 new workers, ...
Innovation Station
November 1, 2012 Three years ago, officials from the Office of Personnel Management< began visiting top Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and IDEO with one idea in mind: making government cool again. Now, OPM is embracing that cool factor by replicating some of the work habits and workspaces of those companies in designing ...
With a week to go before the election, techies prefer Obama
October 30, 2012
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Voters are just one week away from going to the polls and casting their ballots for the 2012 Presidential race. So which candidate are technology professionals choosing as the best choice for addressing their issues? A survey of more than 2,000 technology professionals by Dice.com found that while support for ...
A government shutdown isn’t what it used to be
October 29, 2012
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Just because many federal agency offices on the East Coast are closed as the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast brace for Hurricane Sandy, a government shutdown does not mean the federal employees who work in those offices are getting time off. Thanks to the advancements of the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act, more ...
Does BYOD Boost Productivity?
October 29, 2012 The majority of federal employees want their agencies to implement a policy that allows them to use their own devices for work, with many arguing that doing so will lead to cost savings and improved productivity, according to a new survey by GovLoop and Cisco. The survey of 108 GovLoop ...
BYOD policies could increase productivity, employees say
October 26, 2012
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The majority of federal employees want their agencies to implement a policy that allows them to use their own devices for work, with many arguing that doing so will lead to cost savings and improved productivity, according to a new survey by GovLoop and Cisco. The survey of 108 GovLoop ...
Pentagon advised to overhaul science and tech hiring
October 25, 2012
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The Defense Department must overhaul its recruiting and hiring practices and reassess its requirements for security clearances if it expects to effectively compete for critical workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, according to a report released Thursday by the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council. Defense’s ...
Demand for IT security workers heats up
October 24, 2012
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The unemployment rate for technology professionals is about half of the national average, but for some positions -- like information security -- the hunt for skilled workers is heating up even more. According to this month’s issue of the Dice Report, information security job postings on Dice are at an ...
