Management

Time Management: Taming Your Inner Rebel

How to recognize the roadblocks to powerful work routines.

Nextgov

Why Does the Air Force Spend Twice as Much to Hack than to Deflect Threats?

The service's cyber operations budget sheds little light on actual spending.

Management

Senate Panel Advances More Legislation Targeting VA Executives

Spending bill includes provisions banning bonuses and making it easier to fire managers.

Management

The Myth That Americans Are Busier Than Ever

"How did we get so busy?" the New Yorker asks. Let's define busy. And, while we're at it, let's define we, too.

Management

Boehner Says He Has No Confidence in Veterans Affairs Investigation

The House speaker says he's 'getting a little closer' to calling for VA chief's resignation.

Management

What Managers Do When Technology Does Their Work

Roles change when coordination and communication functions are automated.

Management

House OKs 1.8 Percent Pay Raise for Troops, Officer Pay Freeze

Defense authorization bill also includes provisions making it easier to re-employ retirees, and limiting furloughs of working capital fund employees.

Management

The House Just Passed a Bill to End Mass NSA Spying. But Will It Really Change Anything?

Tech companies and privacy groups say the measure leaves loopholes for intelligence agencies to exploit.

Nextgov

NASA Has a New Plan to Save Its Zombie Spaceship

A long-lost spaceship may still have some life left in it—if a California company can figure out how to talk to it.

Management

U.S. Air Force Failed Another Nuclear Security Test

Insufficient training contributed to the poor performance.

Nextgov

Is Your Manager Becoming Less Committed to Telework?

Some 45 percent surveyed perceive a waning commitment to flexibility from their employers.

Oversight

Play of the Day: The Death Knell of the Tea Party

Is Mitch McConnell's win in Kentucky the sound of the movement's death rattle?

Management

Is Government Ready for Millennials?

Agencies should be building a culture that attracts young workers.

Employee Policy

AFGE says staffing shortage at core of VA woes

While allegations of secret waiting lists implicate senior management at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, one union claims understaffing is at the heart of the problem of long wait times.

Employee Policy

House passes bill to ease firing of VA execs

The House on May 21 passed a bill that would give Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki new authority to fire senior executives for poor performance.

Employee Policy

Postal bill would drop 15M addresses from to-the-door delivery

A House panel advanced a bill that would compel 15 million postal customers who currently have mail delivered to their doors to retrieve their mail instead from curbside mailboxes or from clusters of neighborhood lock boxes that provide "secure centralized delivery."

Pay & Benefits

Delinquent on Your Tax Bills? You Could Soon Get Fired

Senate panel picks up legislation that failed in the House.

Nextgov

USPS Employees Get Fake USPS Phishing Emails, Too

Here's an inside peak at what happens next.

Management

Obama Leaves Door Open for Shinseki Departure

The president wasn't exactly glowing in his praise for the embattled VA secretary on Wednesday.

Management

80 U.S. Troops Are Headed to Chad to Search for the Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

Troops will operate and protect a Predator drone involved in the search.