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John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Make a Flexible Spending Account Work for You, on the site GovLoop 7 hours, 13 minutes ago
For federal employees, the Federal Flexible Spending Account Program (FSAFEDS) is one of the simplest ways to put more money in the bank each year.
Although there are different types of FSAs, the basic concept […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Flexible Benefits Linked to Better Job Satisfaction, on the site GovLoop 2 days, 5 hours ago
Federal agencies looking to retain and attract talent know that they need to lean hard on their ability to offer good benefits as part of the overall compensation package. But the traditional benefits portfolio […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Fierce Talent Competition Puts Spotlights on Benefits, on the site GovLoop 1 week, 4 days ago
For federal agencies, what was already tough competition for talent has gotten even tougher with the advent of what is being called “The Great Resignation of 2021.”
Beginning early in the year, in the wake of […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, What’s Been Your Big Learning Moment?, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 1 week ago
As part of our interviews for “Conversations With CXOs: Your Crash Course on the Future of Gov,” we asked C-level execs to share a big learning moment from early in their careers. Here is a sampling of what they […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, What Do You Wish You Had Known Earlier in Your Career?, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 1 week ago
As part of our interviews for “Conversations With CXOs: Your Crash Course on the Future of Gov,” we asked C-level execs what they wish they had known when they started their careers in government. Here is a […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, The Future of AI Hangs on Ethics, Trust, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 1 week ago
Chezian Sivagnanam, Chief Architect at the U.S. National Science Foundation, believes the next several years could prove critical in laying the groundwork for the broad use of artificial […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Closing the Skills Gap Between Higher Ed and the Workforce, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 1 week ago
Prospective IT employees often have difficulty entering the workforce due to the gap between the skills required to land an IT job and the currently available educational opportunities that provide a baseline of […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Instill Confidence in Cloud Services, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 1 week ago
When organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they quickly discover that the measures of their success are both complicated and elusive.
The problem is that you need to tap into countless sources of […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Collaboration in a Post-Pandemic World , on the site GovLoop 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Collaboration has always been an important part of making government run smoothly. Sometimes, it’s collaboration between government agencies. Other times, it’s collaboration between government agencies and priv […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Don’t Let Background Noise Disrupt Constituent Engagements, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Government agencies at all levels have gotten the message loud and clear: Constituents want to access services and communicate with government digitally, through a variety of channels – phone, email, video, chat o […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, What Autistic Employees Would Like You to Know, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Empathy is a tricky business. […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Case Study: How the Census Made a Hard Pivot When the Pandemic Hit, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Communication has always been key to the success of the decennial census. As part of every census, the U.S. Census Bureau embarks on a nationwide effort to encourage everyone to respond online, by phone or by […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Think About the Cloud in New Ways, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 1 week ago
Cloud experts often talk about the value of going after low-hanging fruit – that is, fairly simple cloud deployments that provide clear and quick benefits. But the lowest-hanging fruit is not necessarily the s […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Is Modernization Worth the Effort? 3 Factors to Consider, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Given a limited budget, how do you make a go/no-go decision on an IT modernization initiative?
Try approaching it like a home improvement project, said Corona Ngatuvai, Enterprise Architect for the Utah […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, The Year of … Automating Infrastructure, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago
In today’s IT environment, the management and operations of infrastructure can be soul-crushing work.
The problem is that the traditional data center continues to evolve. First, agencies moved into a hybrid IT […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Agencies Find New Ways to Put RPA to Work, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago
For government workers, robotic process automation (RPA) will change the productivity equation.
In recent years, the productivity of government staff has been constrained by the math, with the number of […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Nimble Tools to Manage the Surge in Facilities Work, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a county government sought to encourage employees to wash their hands as one way to prevent spreading contagions. But there was a problem. An existing policy […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, It’s Time to Think About Mainframes in New Ways, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 1 week ago
The mainframe has a well-deserved reputation as the workhorse of IT operations. But it also has a growing edge as a platform for enterprise innovation.
The idea is to let the mainframe do what it does well — m […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Social Media Security Tips, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Just as social media can help agencies cultivate the trust of their constituents, a security incident on social can undermine that trust. Potential threats include misinformation, spam comments, imposter accounts […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How State, Local Agencies Can Deal with Surge in Cyberthreats, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 3 weeks ago
In so many areas of life, the pandemic took a tough situation and made it that much worse. Cybersecurity was no exception, especially for state and local agencies.
Perpetually working with limited resources, […]
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This is an important article. I have epilepsy and had four seizures at work between 2002 and 2015. Plus some anxiety and depression. At a minimum, supervisors did not know what to do just from a first response standpoint. Luckily my grand-mal seizures did not result in serious injury but did hamper my performance for a week. Supervisors should know the basic procedures and results for people with epilepsy. The same goes for any health care unit in a building. I have had to lie down in a dark room for a while in a health unit even if I did not have a seizure. There was nowhere else to go. I have a friend at DOJ who has similar problems. Employees should have a copy of the procedures on their desk and the contact info of their doctor. Please pass this along