SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

There should be an option for permanant career employees to work part-time. (Perhaps 4 out of 5 days a week.) The employee could pay out a little more in insurance, etc. but, would have a more family-friendly manageable schedule.

Many professional offices have Monday-Friday hours only. For some employees the higher cost of insurance, etc. may outweigh the burden of scheduling leave and juggling family responsibilities... more »

These can be for permanant career employee positions who have the necessary security-enhanced equipment or for those who do not handle personally identifiable information.

Include subordinate employees' ratings of supervisors and managers yearly reviews. Even if this accounts for %1 of %100, it will provide insight to that manager or supervisor's capabilities.

Higher-level employees, managers, supervisore, SES folks do not NEED higher-quality furniture (real oak, etc.). Make them get the same standard furniture as all government employees. Of course, they may need different furniture, or more, depending on their position, but not better.

Of course, this would decrease the amount of retirement that person would receive. It would also, allow newer people (who are generally paid less) to advance professionally.

People have cell phones, watches, computers, radios, even the telephones show the time. From where I am sitting right now, I can see the time from six different sources.

Not everyone participates, and those who do, can donate in other ways, and on their own time - and get credit for themselves... not just let their government agency take credit for the donations.

 

Each year employees are taken away from their regular day jobs to "volunteer" (still getting paid) to plan bake sales and silent auctions.

There are many government offices close to each other in big cities. Move some of them to cheaper locations, for example move an office from the Washington DC area to Manassas where there is plenty of space, cheaper expenses, and is close to public transportation.

Allow employees to use a specific amount of unpaid leave, without penalty to leave, SCD, etc, upon supervisor's approval, of course.

When represenatives of claimants (at the hearing level) submit medical evidence within seven days of the hearing, those medical records must be sent to contracted medical experts scheduled to testify at the hearing by FedEx. The cost of the delivery of those last minute additions to the record to the Medical or Vocational Expert is absorbed by the Agency and also places unwarrented workload strains on an already tight... more »

Allow any leave (sick, annual, lwop) to be transferred from one employee to another regardless of reason or relation.

Stop using manpower to determine whether someone qualifies for VLTP or not, just set up a log-in system where people that have leave to donate can offer leave to people who are in need of leave. People can enter their own names/requests, self-monitor their leave activity, and others can donate/give... more »

If there were automatic expiration dates on emails sent out by management/supervisors, etc., it would help clear virtual space on the computer email and drives, thus maintaining a lower memory/storage and speeding up the computer's applications.

Many agencies have a time-retention timeframe requirement for people holding onto Personally identifiable information contained in emails and old work.

This would also lighten... more »

If you combine the ODAR, DDS and FO agencies as one agency; Have persons working and doing work that is their strengths not their weaknesses. I have worked in the field office and ODAR; repetition produces quality and quanitity; If you do the same items over and over you are very quick when repeating the work, My idea is to have one building for Odar, Field Office, DDS, They would be called SSA; You put all three offices... more »

I know the Social Security Administration has a facebook page, but does it have cell phone "apps" (applications) that can do specific things like locating a SSA office, maybe even conducting some kind of service online right at the customer's fingertips?

Although Ful Time Telework won't work for everyont, I do think that there are some 25 - 50% of most Agencies that could perfom their functions from an alternative worksite. Many managers are uncomfortable with this but it would be a matter of changing their style of managing. Instead of "stopping by" a persons desk, they could call or send emails to ask the quick question or provide an assignment.

In many ways,... more »