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In-office work and telework are often seen as a zero-sum game, but hybrid work can make offices, including in the federal government, more flexible. In a new report titled "Hybrid Work in Government," Cisco surveyed public sector employees about their feelings about hybrid work.

Marcus Moffett is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director of Engineering and Architecture of Cisco's U.S. Public Sector. He joined the podcast to discuss the report and the future of public sector hybrid work.

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Federal employees have to make a lot of important choices while working in order to have a successful and pleasant retirement. No matter where they work or how old they are, feds know that a lot of decisions need to be made before federal employees retire. Some of these choices can have lifelong consequences and need to be carefully evaluated.

The GovExec Daily podcast often features guests who examine some of the ways that public servants can use information to inform their decisions about the TSP and other financial issues that will shape their retirement. In this episode, you'll hear some of the information about retirement that have been featured on GovExec Daily over the last year.

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Last year, President Joe Bides mandated federal workers to be fully vaccinated or request a medical or religious exemption by late november, but the deadline was pushed back, both by court injunctions and by the administration itself. A court most recently selected to hear an appeal to the vaccine mandate in September, further pushing back enforcement of the mandate.

Stephanie Rapp-Tully is a partner and federal employment attorney with Tully Rinckey PLLC's Washington, D.C. office. She joined the podcast what the vaccine mandate delays mean and what feds need to know about enforcement.

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Monkeypox is a disease that surfaces periodically, but the current wave of it has some public health officials worried. The world is still mired in new COVID-19 variants, causing thousands of cases, so another public health emergency is certainly not welcome. The Biden administration has empowered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to respond to the monkeypox as U.S. cases of the disease rise.

GovExec correspondent Courtney Bublé is covering the monkeypox outbreak. She joined the podcast to talk about the federal response to the disease's spread.

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The term "blood diamonds" entered the popular lexicon in the past few decades, to be replaced somewhat by "blood minerals" or "conflict minerals." In short, many armed groups and conflicts are financed and sustained by illegally selling mined resources like diamonds, gold, tungsten and other financially lucrative materials. The problem is international, and the United States Geological Survey is partnering with international organizations to track and monitor the conflict mineral trade worldwide.

Peter Chirico is associate director of the USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center and special advisor to the U.S. Department of State's Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures. He joined the podcast to discuss the USGS efforts to combat the conflict mineral trade.

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The G Fund is now the biggest amongst the five core Thrift Saving Funds funds. The fund has more than $200 billion invested in it. That's a big deal, but what does that mean for TSP investors?

Dallen Haws is a financial planner and host of the Haws Federal Advisors YouTube channel and podcast. He is also the author of the book Building Wealth in The TSP: Your Road Map to Financial Freedom as a FERS Employee. As part of our #MoneyMonday series, he joined the podcast to talk about the G Fund and what TSP investors need to know about it.

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The last few years have seen a new labor and management environment wherein organizations and workers are navigating a changing power dynamic. In some instances, workers have wielded more agency. Organizations and workers are experiencing this pendulum shift in different ways and can certainly come away with different conclusions.

Stephanie Creary is an organizational behavior scholar and assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is focused on understanding how to create more inclusive and equitable workplaces and organizations. She leads the Leading Diversity@Wharton Speaker Series and hosts the Knowledge@Wharton Leading Diversity at Work Podcast Series. She recently moderated an Academy of Management panel titled "The Pendulum Shift Toward the Worker." She joined the podcast to discuss the change in the employee/employer relationships.

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In a decision last month, the Supreme Court ruled that state governments have the authority to prosecute certain cases on tribal lands. As with many of the decisions this term, the ruling was not without controversy, with one tribal leader saying the decision goes against the "basic principles of congressional authority and Indian law."

M. Alexander Pearl is a law professor at the University of Oklahoma law school and an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is a nationally recognized scholar in the fields of indigenous legal issues and statutory interpretation. He joined the podcast to discuss the Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta Supreme Court decision.

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Public service is an attractive career path because of its stability, especially against the backdrop of a volatile economic situation in the United States. But, hiring has been an issue for the federal government for years and continues to struggle to bring in younger and early-career talent. Attracting and retaining such talent is key for a modern government and technology could be one of the keys to transforming government hiring.

Todd Gustafson is President of HP Federal. He joined the podcast to discuss hiring and the race for young talent in government.

After the Supreme Court's West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency decision, former agency leaders and public management experts have lamented the potential chilling effects on regulatory agencies. The decision, some have argued, marks the loss of the administrative state's ability to solve big problems like climate change.

Heather McTeer Toney is Vice President for Community Engagement at the Environmental Defense Fund. From 2014-2017, she served as the Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Southeast Region. She joined the podcast to discuss the Supreme Court decision and the chilling of regulations.

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