All posts tagged "workers"

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  Taking stock of the pandemic response: building human resilience in civil services

  Managing COVID-19 has placed huge demands on public and civil servants everywhere. Una O’Brien, leadership coach and former permanent secretary at the UK’s health department, explores what research tells us

  • Posted July 6, 2021
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  There’s no going back: the future of hybrid working in civil services

  Research shows that many officials do not want to return to the office full-time after the pandemic. At a recent GGF webinar, experts from across the world discussed how governments

  • Posted June 10, 2021
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  Public trust in government isn’t only essential to service delivery – it restores the public sector too

  Opinion: Trust strengthens links with communities, and those bonds help to attract broader talent into public service, writes former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie. After COVID-19, we must seize the

  • Posted June 2, 2021
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  Diversity grows sharply among UK senior officials

  The UK civil service has seen a sharp rise in the diversity of its senior civil servants over the last year, with rapid growth in the proportion of ethnic minority

  • Posted May 12, 2021
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  UK officials keen to retain remote working, survey finds

  The vast majority of UK civil servants have adapted well to remote working and want to continue working flexibly after the pandemic, according to new research – though there are

  • Posted May 3, 2021
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  US federal employees were resilient during COVID-19 but concerns raised about service delivery

  While US federal government employees mostly remained resilient and engaged during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were “meaningful declines” in their assessment of service delivery, according to an annual staff survey.

  • Posted April 27, 2021
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  Four trends to watch from the Australian Public Service census

  The Australian Public Service Commission published the results of its annual employee census earlier this week.   The survey, conducted in October to November 2020, takes the pulse of professionals

  • Posted April 1, 2021
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  The next diversity frontier: supporting ‘neurominority’ professionals in the civil service

  Neurodiverse people have extraordinary skills and are huge assets to their teams. Chartered psychologist Dr Nancy Doyle and business psychologist Uzma Waseem explain how departments can put the right help

  • Posted March 22, 2021
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  UK abandons redundancy cap following legal challenges

  The UK government has repealed new regulations that limited exit payments for departing public sector staff to £95,000 (US$132,000), after its policy was challenged in the courts by unions and

  • Posted February 15, 2021
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  Obama’s leadership adviser appointed to key HR role

  US president Joe Biden has appointed an Obama-era personnel official to lead efforts to rebuild relationships between the White House and the federal workforce, following four years of tension and

  • Posted February 11, 2021
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