Familiar Process ahead for Employees if Shutdown Happens

Source: Fedweek

If a shutdown seems imminent, OMB issues a memo to affected agencies telling them to put their contingency plan into effect.

 Agency-by-agency and government-wide policies have remained largely unchanged for many years and the results will be familiar for employees if a funding lapse occurs and triggers a partial shutdown as of the October 1 start of the new fiscal year.

Each agency has a shutdown “contingency plan” that describes the categories of employees who would be required to stay at work, although unpaid until funding is restored (“excepted” employees) and those who would be sent home on unpaid furloughs (“non-excepted” employees). Most of those plans were updated late last year. Follow link to read more. https://bit.ly/3Y0ubdF

GSA’s Coworking Pilot Could Help Better Plan the Future Of Work, But First, it Needs to Define Long-Term Success

With about half of its leased office space set to expire in the next five years, the General Services Administration is wagering that workspaces shared by multiple agencies could be how federal employees return to the office.

But a Government Accountability Office report published Wednesday that examined the GSA’s coworking pilot program said there needs to be better data illustrating its use and potential cost savings before it attempts to scale the practice.

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