Worker shortages are not a new problem for public employers. Report after report through the last decade told of staffing shortages, most acutely in public health, law enforcement and education. Today ...

Last year the Office of Management and Budget announced a “reset” on how agencies manage their workplaces. Sometimes it’s hard to believe but the civil service system is today virtually unchanged ...

Headlines present conflicting narratives about the healthcare workforce, with CEOs highlighting it as a top concern while researchers emphasize a rapidly growing healthcare labor supply above ...

What is one of the biggest challenges facing logistics companies today? Finding and retaining enough drivers to keep their fleets operating at full capacity. Earlier this year, we found that the ...

It’s hard to decide where to start. Human capital management has been on GAO’s High Risk list for more than 20 years. Recent GAO reports have focused on several agencies where staffing shortages and ...

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When most of us hear terms like mortgage rates, inflation or the unemployment rate, we tend to see them from one perspective. Low mortgage rates are good. Inflation is bad. The lower the unemployment ...

The nursing shortage isn’t just a workforce problem – it’s a direct threat to patient care and public health. Hospitals and clinics across the country are struggling to fill nursing positions, yet ...

“Watch out when all the baby boomers all retire at once.” This was the prevailing workforce sentiment during most of my time in Michigan state government. The fear: a massive “brain drain” of ...

On its face, President Bush's budget underestimates the seriousness of the government's people problems and how difficult it is to make the government work better. The fiscal 2002 budget, released ...

US shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries is putting more money into wages and a new workforce strategy, and it's finding that it's not only hiring more experienced workers but also retaining them, ...