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How to Wake up Alert and Refreshed

"There are some very basic and achievable things you can start doing today, and tonight, to change how you awake each morning..."

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D.C. Wants to Move Beyond COVID-19 Telework. What's Taking The Federal Government So Long?

GovExec Daily staff discusses the ways that the pandemic has changed agency office plans in Washington, D.C.

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Clawing Back IRS Funding Is Just the Beginning for Agency Spending Reductions, House Republicans Say

The House on Monday voted to unwind an unprecedented spending surge at IRS and Republicans promised more such efforts are on the way.

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Supreme Court Justices Seem Skeptical of State Challenge of FLRA’s Jurisdiction Over National Guard Civilians

“Is Ohio just crazy” for repudiating collective bargaining obligations with civilian technicians of the Ohio National Guard, asked one conservative jurist.

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How to Unlock Your Creativity – Even if You See Yourself as a Conventional Thinker

New research highlights how anyone can train their creative muscles by rethinking the anxiety, frustration and anger they encounter in daily life.

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Diversity of U.S. Workplaces Is Growing in Terms of Race, Ethnicity and Age – Forcing More Employers to Be Flexible

Employers need good strategies to hire and retain more workers of color and older workers. The mandatory diversity training and requisite skills tests many of them now rely on don’t measure up.

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Retirement, Savings and Learning from Financial Classes

Sidney and Saundra Curry join the podcast to discuss financial wellness programs can serve public servants.

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Working in Isolation Can Pose Mental Health Challenges – Here’s What Anyone Can Learn from How Gig Workers Have Adapted

Gig workers navigate the challenges of solo work by seeking out relationships and cultivating skills to cope with emotional turbulence.

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Americans Are Taking More Control Over Their Work Lives – Because They Have To

‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security.

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How Public Sector Women Lead

The Partnership for Public Service's Emily Kalnicky joins the podcast to discuss research on gender and leadership.

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National Science Foundation Spearheads New Funding to Improve Diversity in AI Workforce

In collaboration with six other federal groups, the NSF will focus on expanding minority-serving university offerings in artificial intelligence and machine learning education.

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The Federal Labor Relations Authority Is Now Ideologically Deadlocked After Its Chairman’s Term Expired

President Biden designated Susan Tsui Grundmann to be chairwoman of the agency after Ernest DuBester reached the end of his term, although the president could reappoint the longtime FLRA member.

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How Social Media Can Come Back to Bite You During the Security Clearance Process

Lindy Kyzer joins the podcast to discuss networks like Twitter and Tiktok relates to the continuous vetting of employees working for the federal government.

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Has Remote Learning Buried the Snow Day? Depends On Where You Live

Despite technological advances, many US schools are still likely to cancel school in the event of a big snowstorm.

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Year of the Living Dead: How Schedule F Continued to Threaten to Upend the Civil Service in 2022

The Trump administration’s abortive effort to strip thousands of federal workers of their civil service protections continues to cast its shadow on government.

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GovExec Daily: 2022 In Review

Tom Shoop joins the podcast to discuss the biggest stories of the year.

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FLRA Moves to Undo a Controversial Trump-era Union Dues Policy

The Federal Labor Relations Authority, now under Democratic control, said prior leadership ignored the Civil Service Reform Act’s legislative history.

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Federal Employee Appeals Board Still Has Years of Work Ahead to Cut Through Its Record Backlog

Board has made slow but steady progress in reducing its workload after Congress incapacitated it for five years.

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‘Tis the Season: Holiday Hang-Ups That Can Hurt Your Cleared Career

Gone are the days when you could get a little too merry and hope your employer would never know.

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Social Media Monitoring in the Security Clearance Process

What – if anything – is the government considering in an online search of security clearance applicants?