All posts tagged "Flexible Working"

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  The power of quiet persistence: Five minutes with Vanna Aldin, chief economist at the UK work and pensions department

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from women civil and public servants as part of our Global Government Women’s Network coverage. In this interview,

  • Posted May 14, 2025
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  Why remote working is a magnet for attracting diverse talent to the public service

  Public servants discuss how hybrid working is providing a major benefit to recruitment, and how it can help organisations better reflect the communities they serve. Hybrid working has encouraged more

  • Posted October 16, 2024
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  Public servants tip AI as the top tech to boost productivity

  New exclusive Global Government Forum (GGF) research reveals that while public servants worldwide face a pressing productivity challenge, many government organisations are lagging on the adoption of technology, particularly AI,

  • Posted September 12, 2024
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  Solving the public services productivity puzzle

  Exclusive insights from civil servants on the power of innovation Over the years, civil services around the world have tried a range of initiatives to improve productivity – often with

  • Posted September 12, 2024
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  US agencies urged to do more on gender pay equity, female civil servants can forge new leadership models, and more

  Welcome to this month’s Global Government Women’s Network newsletter following a break in August. In this edition, we look at efforts to encourage US federal agencies to ‘probe deeper’ to

  • Posted September 12, 2024
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  Size of Canadian public service likely to grow despite 5,000 job cut target | Net zero ‘weaponised in culture wars’, climate watchdog warns: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence Size of Canadian public service likely to grow despite 5,000 job cut target The size of the Canadian public service

  • Posted May 2, 2024
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  UK civil servants make bid for four-day working week

  Civil servants in the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have launched a campaign to work a four-day week. Staff at the department have called for a

  • Posted December 12, 2023
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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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  Most US federal government headquarters buildings less than a quarter full, official report finds

  Most of the major US federal agencies’ buildings are a quarter full or less, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO measured employees’ attendance at

  • Posted July 19, 2023
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  One third of Canadian public servants consider leaving government over return-to-office rules

  More than a third of Canadian public servants are so unhappy with the federal government’s return-to-office approach that they are considering leaving their roles, according to a survey by the

  • Posted June 20, 2023
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