Workforce

Trump Administration Launches Coronavirus Surge Response Program

Federal employees can apply for temporary assignments to help with the pandemic response. 

  • Courtney Bublé

Coronavirus Roundup: Government to Issue New Guidance Based on Regional Risks

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

  • Courtney Bublé

Postal Workers Increasingly Concerned the Agency Isn't Protecting Them From Coronavirus

"I am putting [my grandmother's] life in danger every day I go to work," one employee said.

  • Eric Katz

Coronavirus Roundup: Agencies Struggle to Meet Escalating Needs

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

  • Courtney Bublé

GovExec Daily: Coordinating the Coronavirus Response

Route Fifty's Emma Coleman and GovExec's Eric Katz join the podcast to discuss the ways different levels of government are responding to the pandemic.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Coronavirus Roundup: Survey Finds the Public Trusts CDC More Than President Trump

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

  • Courtney Bublé

Telework Should Be an Option for Some Workers With Security Clearances

The reality is that many positions require a security clearance because of where the work is conducted, not the work itself.

  • Lindy Kyzer

Workers Left out of Government and Business Response to the Coronavirus

If government and business collaborate with workers, a scholar of labor relations writes, current economic problems could get less severe, the recovery smoother and lasting prosperity more likely.

  • Thomas Kochan, The Conversation

OPM Revises Hiring and Onboarding Policies Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Agencies have new authorities to hire emergency staff and bring on all new workers virtually.

  • Eric Katz

Coronavirus Roundup: FEMA Launches a ‘Rumor Control’ Website, Defense Prepares for Telework ‘As Long As Necessary’

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

  • Courtney Bublé

GovExec Daily: What It Takes to Get Tested for Coronavirus

Kate Queram joins the podcast to tell her story of finally getting tested for COVID-19.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Can’t Telework? 10 Tips for Feds Impacted by COVID-19

You may have options you’re not aware of.

  • Ricardo J.A. Pitts-Wiley

With Dozens of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases, USPS Launches New Measures to Protect Employees

Congress floats major cash injection as employees remain concerned for their safety.

  • Eric Katz
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Coronavirus Roundup: OMB Releases New Workforce Guidance, Agencies Report More COVID-19 Cases

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

  • Courtney Bublé

GovExec Daily: Your COVID-19 Emails, Answered

Katherine McIntire Peters and Tom Shoop join the podcast to react to our readers' stories of their agency issues with coronavirus isolation.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Dogs Can Ease Your Self-Quarantine Stress

Dogs can ease our stress during these times of COVID-19 self-quarantine, an expert explains. As an extra bonus, we can do the same for them.

  • Futurity

This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus

Mitigation can buy us time, but only suppression can get us to where we need to be.

  • Aaron E. Carroll and Ashish Jha, The Atlantic

Coronavirus Roundup: Many Feds are in “Critical Infrastructure Workforce”

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

  • Courtney Bublé

5 Ways To Maintain Community While Social Distancing

It's possible to maintain community despite the social distancing necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19, according to a professor of health psychology.

  • Eric Stann, Futurity

TSA Screeners Begin Staying Home En Masse After Agency Loosens Leave Rules

'We've just opened the floodgates,' one senior executive says.

  • Eric Katz

Trump Confuses Telework With Telemedicine

Asked at a press conference if he was moving to increase federal employee telework, the president referred to telehealth efforts underway.

  • Tom Shoop