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How Do We Welcome Astronauts Back to Earth? By Making Them Go Through Customs
Triumphant returns are also a triumph for bureaucracy.
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Progressive Dems to Obama: Raise Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors
Lawmakers say president can bypass Congress.
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DARPA Plugs Contest for Watson-like System to Deflect Hackers
Cyber Grand Challenge winners will take home $2 million to create an unmanned hacker-stopper.
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Using Search Tools to Declassify Presidential Docs -- Starting With Reagan's
White House also vows to bring all FOIA requests into a single platform.
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The Complete Guide to Writing Office Memos
Internal memos can matter as much as any marketing brochure or press release.
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8 Ways to Keep Work From Spilling Into Your Season of Joy
How to keep your email and other distractions from hijacking your holiday.
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OPM to Agencies: Don't Forget to Expand Telework This Winter
Agencies must increase the number of telework-ready employees as part of continuity of operations plans.
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How Many Supervisors Does Government Need?
Managers continue to be a target for cost-cutting, but the workload is still there.
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Decision-Making: Just Get It Over With
The psychology of doing unpleasant tasks sooner, which really is better
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Ex-HR Chiefs: Some Federal Managers Just Can’t Manage
A trio of former OPM directors advocates for more accurate employee evaluations and a reassessment of federal compensation.
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When Leadership Skills Trump Technical Skills
Subject matter experts promoted to executive posts have to tap a different skill set.
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NASA Taps Silicon Valley Space Miners to Crowdsource Asteroid Threats
Company has already experimented with the Internet’s ability to bring people together
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IRS Reaches Electronic Filing Milestone
83 percent of individual tax returns were filed electronically in 2013.
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Nine-to-Fiver or Workaholic? Either Way, It’s Your Parents’ Fault
Researchers have found the how adolescents perceive their parent's work ethic is central to the development of their own work attitude.
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White House Makes Few Friends in Raising Contractor Pay Cap
Union and industry decry mandatory change in reimbursement level -- for different reasons.
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Obama Orders Agencies to Use 20 Percent Green Power
The federal government will have until 2020 to get one-fifth of its electricity from renewable sources.
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4 Imperatives for Smart Savings That Boost Efficiency
Rethinking technology, process, organization and data.
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Hagel to Cut Hundreds of Staff, Contractors and Reorganize for $1B Savings
In July, the Defense secretary ordered a 20 percent reduction in the front office budget.
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