government

An insightful piece by Mike Gallagher on what it means to work in the open in the public sector.

[...] everything we work on is paid for by the public purse, making it public property [...] we need to ensure that the things we learn and make are easily accessible to all so that they don’t need to be re-learned or re-made, unnecessarily draining limited funding. Making our work open to everyone is a civic responsibility and a contractual obligation.

[...] since early on in the UK public sector’s adoption of contemporary methods of digital delivery, organisations have taken up blogging as a means of sharing what they’re learning and building community.

Discovered though Giles Turnbull's links.

These layoffs surely must be a fad of the times, it can't be true that almost every major organization has over hired in the last few years.

The IRS is looking to revert their reduction in force program, which I discovered via TheMorningNews.

The Internal Revenue Service is no longer planning to pursue layoffs as it seeks to rebuild parts of its workforce. The tax agency is now working to plug staffing holes with hiring, reassignments and rescinding the administration’s deferred resignation offer for some employees upon finding mission-critical staffing gaps.

In other news, Trump issues an order to create the National Design Studio to improve government websites for the people. Seems good on paper until you realize DOGE shutdown 18F whose job it was too exactly this.