How Unused Sick Leave Impacts Your Retirement Annuity
Of all the benefits provided by the federal government, have you ever stopped to consider the benefits of your unused sick leave?
Join Us at GovLoop
Here at GovLoop, our goal is simple: connect government to improve government. In order to do that, we need awesome, hard-working fellows to help us out! We’re hiring our next cohort of undergraduate or recently graduated students for our fall fellowship program. This is a full time, four month (August 22 – December 23), paid internshipRead… Read more »
Tips for Combatting Millennial Myths in the Workplace
Last week, we talked about common millennial myths and ways to confront them. But what does that look like in the workplace? To learn more, we talked to GovLoop employees about ways they’ve addressed millennial stereotypes either as a young professional or as a manager.
DorobekINSIDER: Clinton’s proposed gov IT agenda
As you probably know, there is an election coming up — five long months ahead. And as we all know and understand, elections matter. My fear has been that the coming months will be more about screaming about how the other person is going to destroy the country rather than what the candidate would doRead… Read more »
Branding: It’s Not Just for the Private Sector
For government agencies, a strong brand can help build public trust in our work, raise awareness of our services and help us connect with the very people who fund our agencies.
Improving IT Management with Technology Business Management
Technology Business Management is a framework for translating cost, value, and quality between different IT stakeholders. This allows critical collaboration and communication around IT spending, especially under FITARA’s changes.
5 Secrets Your Agency’s Security Team Isn’t Telling You
Here are a few “secrets” that you may not know about Information Security, which you can use to help you form a stronger alliance or prevent any missteps that could cause problems for the team.
Printer Security: Challenges, Misconceptions, and More
Not many organizations have stringent printing policies, and most do not see much reason to change that. The main reason that many agencies don’t have strong measures for securing their printers? There is a gaping lack of education surrounding printers, as well as a number of misconceptions.
How GIS Works to Combat Fraud
GIS technology can be used to help address fraud, waste and abuse in several different ways. Organizations benefit from closely examining location-based factors to identify hot spots, regional variations and clusters, such as co-locations of services. Then, real-time data analysis shows spatial trends that inform predictions about future needs and issues — or, in this… Read more »
The Employee Burn-out Phenomenon
Employees’ performance is dependent on many factors. There are some signs and symptoms that can be controlled, as well as recognized early on by exercising caring leadership.