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Survey: CHCOs worry about retaining committed workforce

Emily Kopp, Federal News Radio

Wednesday - 12/21/2011, 6:04am

Retaining good employees in spite of pay freezes and cuts to employee benefits will be the biggest challenge facing agency human resources officials next year.

That's more of a concern to chief human…

There is a mountain of evidence , if not proof, that employee engagement is tightly correlated with better job performance and higher productivity. Where engaged employees have the skills, knowledge and equipment to do the work, they achieve far better results than disengaged employees. The evidence has been…

Posting by Tom Myette, CHCI Researcher

It’s that time again when federal agencies who participated in the Partnership for Public Service’s Best Places to Work in Federal Government survey are given the opportunity to analyze their workforce and compare rankings across agencies.  During this tough economic climate in which agencies are facing budget constraints and feeling the pressure from the public to optimize productivity, the survey can be a valuable tool. 

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I'm curious to know how the ROWE experiment is going at OPM. I've been eagerly anticipating the independent analysis of the pilot by Deloitte but still can't find it anywhere. The last I heard anything about the ROWE program at OPM was this article from Federal News Radio on October 7:

The Office of Personnel Management's 400 employees participating in the Results Only Work Environment get another 12 months to test out the concept.

Justin Johnson, OPM's deputy chief of…