SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Require warmer facility temperatures in summer and cooler facility temperatures in winter. Encourage people to dress appropriately for the season. Most facilities could change their temperatures a degree or two with little difference in occupant comfort. Over the entire federal government a huge cost savings can be recognized. Unoccupied spaces can be adjusted more significantly.

Each year all agencies have money that they must spend by a certain time. A lot of operations are put together to simply use up the overtime money, but throughout the year employees are pulled from teams and put on primary for Customs and Border Protection to reduce overtime. I would perfer to let the employees on a team actually do the work on the team and they will produce more than a group of employees standing around... more »