Management
Is Multitasking Slowing You Down?
Pivoting between projects can be inefficient and demoralizing.
Management
The Complete Guide to Structuring Your Ideal Work Day
Here’s our take on a top-notch schedule to maximize your productivity and happiness.
Pay & Benefits
Eric Holder Doesn’t Deserve to Be Paid, Republican Lawmakers Say
Group introduces bill to prohibit feds held in contempt of Congress from receiving their salaries.
Nextgov
GSA's Dave McClure to Retire
The associate administrator of the General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies was a leader in key initiatives.
Nextgov
Pentagon Plans to Ax Missile-Interceptor Redesign If Sequestration Returns
The automatic cuts are slated for a comeback in 2016.
Management
4 Ways the Workplace Has Become More Dangerous
Tips for preventing and handling threats and violence on the job.
Management
The Confidence Gap
Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it.
Management
Does a Better Fate Await this Year’s Presidential Management Fellow Finalists?
New hopefuls are announced as the deadline expires for the class of 2013 to land jobs.
Management
It's Hard to Know How Much Agencies Are Spending on Environmental Impact Analyses
GAO notes differences in efforts to weigh costs and benefits of requirements under a 1969 law.
Tech
It's Getting Easier to Find Records of Meetings Between Feds and Lobbyists
Transparency group praises reformatted database.
Nextgov
Amazon and Google Are Battling to Dominate the Cloud -- and Amazon May Already Have Won
Whatever the endgame, it could take decades to reach. In the meantime, this is a fight that rewards scale.
Oversight
The Fight Over the Bundy Cows Will End as Civics 101, Not Fort Sumter II
Government is bringing its legal powers to bear on rancher who initiated an armed stand-off with BLM.
Management
How 'Monsters, Inc.' Met Priority Goals
What agencies can learn from Pixar about effective progress reviews.
Management
Advocacy Group Wants Obama to Issue Even More Executive Orders
The president should use his authority to bypass the gridlocked Congress on 15 additional issues, group suggests.
Management
Should the IRS Outsource Collection of Tax Debt?
Congress is considering bills to require the use of private sector companies.
Management
Obama Management Chief Sees Opportunity to Build on Contracting Successes
Beth Cobert tells contractors they are patriotic partners with federal employees.
Management
The Best Measure of an Employee Is How Well She Mentors Others
What have you done for others lately?
Management
Our Cubicles, Ourselves: How the Modern Office Shapes American Life
How did we come to work in spaces that make us so miserable?
Management