All posts by Jack Aldane

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  Australia’s public service commission rejects four-day week bid

  The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has rejected a bid by federal government employees and unions for a four-day work week. The bid entered negotiations between public service unions and

  • Posted July 26, 2023
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  UK’s top civil servant demands end to ‘Blob’ slur; third of Canadian public servants say work suffers due to staff churn: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK cabinet secretary calls for end to “dehumanising” term to describe officials Simon Case, the

  • Posted July 20, 2023
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  ‘We have to do it faster and better than they do’: CIA chief sets out era of US-China ‘strategic competition’ in AI and beyond

  The head of the Central Intelligence Agency has said that harnessing the power of artificial intelligence represents “the most profound transformation of espionage tradecraft since the Cold War” as he

  • Posted July 17, 2023
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  Australia issues guidance on how public servants can use AI in government

  Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has issued government-wide interim guidance to public servants concerning the correct use of generative AI. Its recommendations mark the government’s first bid to set parameters

  • Posted July 11, 2023
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  AI ‘could shrink UK civil service by two-thirds’ says former UK government HR chief

  Rupert McNeil, the former head of human resources for the UK government, has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could replace two-thirds of civil service roles over the next 15 years.

  • Posted June 26, 2023
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  Reports of sexual harassment at US federal agencies fall; Australia opens consultation on data and digital strategy: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Survey shows that reports of sexual harassment in US federal agencies have decreased Reports of

  • Posted June 22, 2023
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  AI could deny vulnerable citizens public services, fears EU chief

  Artificial intelligence is likely to harm underprivileged citizens most, the European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said, as speculation grows over AI’s threat to humanity. Speaking to the BBC,

  • Posted June 19, 2023
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  Watch this space: do governments stand to gain from the metaverse?

  The metaverse may have arrived, but its applications are limited and its use by public sector organisations is still very much up for debate. While some governments boast big plans,

  • Posted June 18, 2023
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  Treat AI with ‘same spirit of urgency’ as climate change, says UK PM

  UK prime minister Rishi Sunak urged world leaders to view artificial intelligence (AI) with the same humanitarian concern they would climate change during a visit to the White House on

  • Posted June 12, 2023
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  UK officials offered one-off payment after strikes; Zimbabwe bans civil servants from political candidacy: management & workforce news in brief

  UK civil servants offered one-off payment to prevent strike action UK civil servants could receive a one-off payment of £1,500 (US$1,868) this year as part of an effort by government

  • Posted June 8, 2023
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