OPM Setting The Stage For Tomorrow

John Faith
February 16, 2015

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has for years been plagued about what to do during extreme inclement weather. Federal workers waited anxiously for the word to come down from OPM Director about Federal Government closings. Now that Human Resources has made significant headway in trying to get the majority of workers on telework protocol, inclement weather might just be a thing of the past.

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OPM should lead the way in bringing the largest workforce in the country into the modern era of automation. Work assignments and how and when they are carried out should have absolutely nothing to do with the weather short of a severe hurricane or tornado that might interfere with electricity and cut off or stagnate such capabilities.

That statement calls for another red flag. Cable services should also be so advanced that the wind and elements will not knock-out internet services. However, back to OPM and the Federal workforce. There is snow falling in the Washington metro area slated to accumulated 6 to 10 inches that would normally shut down the city. The days of a total government shut down seem to be over. The Federal Government can still carry out its business because the men and women who keep the fires burning no longer have a need to get in cars and drive to the brick and mortar.

Now that OPM is working to keep the Federal workforce in their homes or at centralized locations, the next big challenge for the Feds will be what to do with all of the brick and mortar that today serve as the addresses of many Federal buildings.

We cannot give all the old buildings to Donald Trump and have him turn them into luxury hotels; at least that is what is happening with the old Post Office pavilion, soon to become a Trump hotel. Who knows the old brick and mortar just might become a holding transition point for those who must touch the brick and mortar and cannot get back home.

For now, even if the nation’s capital gets 6 to 8 inches of snow, the business of the United States Government is prepared to keep the fires burning.

Dianna Tafazoli
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