Federal hiring: OPM should collect and share COVID-19 lessons learned to inform hiring during future emergencies : report to congressional addressees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Office of Personnel Management--Rules and practice.

United States.

United States. Office of Personnel Management--Personnel management.

United States. Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

United States. Office of Personnel Management.

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects--United States.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Interagency coordination--United States.

Interagency coordination.

Administrative agencies--United States--Management.

Administrative agencies.

United States--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.

Administrative agencies--Management.

Economics.

Personnel management.

Genre:

Rules

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 34 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Federal hiring: Office of Personnel Management should collect and share COVID-19 lessons learned to inform hiring during future emergencies

Federal hiring authorities

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2021.

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects on federal programs and operations. To address this public health crisis, Congress and the administration made several hiring authorities available to agencies to hire staff with the needed skills to effectively respond to the pandemic. This report examines: (1) the new hiring authorities provided to federal agencies for COVID-19 response and the extent to which selected agencies have used them; (2) selected agencies' experiences using those hiring authorities, including lessons learned; and (3) OPM's efforts to assess agencies' use of the COVID-19 related hiring authorities. GAO is making one recommendation to OPM to develop and implement a process for collecting and sharing government-wide lessons learned associated with agencies' use of different hiring authorities in response to COVID-19.

Contents:

Background.

Agencies' use of temporary pandemic hiring authorities varied.

Although some agencies did not initially understand COVID-19 hiring authorities, selected agencies' experiences during the pandemic identified lessons learned.

OPM plans to review agencies' use of COVID-19 related hiring authorities in 2022 but has not developed plans to capture lessons learned.

Conclusions.

Recommendation.

Agency comments.

Appendices.

Notes:

"October 2021."

"GAO-22-104297."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (GAO, viewed Oct. 26, 2021).

OCLC:

1280518925