Shaping the Federal Workforce

The Office of Personnel Management in coordination with the Harvard Kennedy School and the Maryland School of Public Policy will hold a roundtable meeting on Oct. 28 to discuss the future of the federal workforce, The Washington Post reports. The event, which will be off-the-record and closed to the press, will include administration leaders, unions, congress and members of the private and nonprofit sector. Participants in the meeting plan to tackle issues including: the vision for the federal workforce in five to 10 years, filling mission-critical jobs, transforming the broken federal recruiting and hiring process, and reforming the federal pay system.

My thought is that technology will shape or play a role in each of these areas, whether it involves leveraging Web 2.0 to transform the way federal employees work, filling critical information technology jobs, boosting online recruitment or automating the hiring process. It will be interesting to see what types of reforms and ideas come from next week's meeting. Stay tuned.