Shared funding. More digital services. More fluid workforce models. Those are among the federal government trends in this year’s study by Deloitte. To dive into the details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Bill Eggers, the director of Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights…
Tom Temin And in the U.S. Federal level, I guess, we’re seeing flexibilities applied to certain careers where there’s talent needed. That would be another example?
Bill Eggers Absolutely. We’re certainly seeing that in the cybersecurity area, in the data science area and other areas. It’s just a real big movement, whether it’s around career paths, performance management to more fluidity, more agility around how to use different employees where they can work, and really bringing people together and really trying to connect better people skills development and career progression. In Argentina, they have something called the Design Academy at the government lab, and they’re trying to develop a much more flexible data flow in public sector, where they’ve educated more than 15,000 public servants in just the first three years. Around some of those core skills, and they’ve even gamified this where you get points for attending a different lecture. So those are just some examples of knowing that people, as we live longer, as people move around more, they’re going to need to develop their skills on a regular basis. And how can government as employer help to both catalyze and encourage that? … Read the full article here.
