Government Executive
email The Foundation of the GS System Has Become a Sham
The failure of the job classification system affects every HR practice and puts billions of dollars in payroll in question.
Workforce Management Consultant
The Government Accountability Office in 2001 added strategic human capital management to its list of high risk programs in need of broad reform, a distinction it has retained for two decades. What’s more, auditors noted in their 2021 ranking that it was one of five areas that had “regressed” since the previous assessment in 2019.
In a 2020 letter to the Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro made the point that OPM “had 84 open recommendations.” Further, the agency had implemented only three of 18 open priority recommendations. Those recommendations fall into six areas, including improving the federal classification system: