I'm in one of the 2 red states for the drop in SSA employees, but DDS gained. Hmmmm...are state jobs BETTER than federal jobs? That's not a question that needs an answer. Just a curiosity. I do agree with 10:47, but we only have one office. (There may be two). So, I believe, in this instance, that my state is accurate for the loss of SSA employees.
8:23 Yes many younger people demand flexibility in their workplace and that includes telework. If DDS does not permit any telework. workers will quit and go elsewhere.
That is why it is silly to argue SSA should end telework. That would be a disaster for the agency. Experienced workers would quit or retire by the droves.
SSA should keep present levels of telework when this "evaluation period" ends in September.
Not all parts of SSA are as easily adaptable to telework. I feel like alot of SSA employees on this blog fail to acknowledge this fact. OHO, the appeals council and payment centers are more effective at telework than field offices (though payment centers were a mess for while)--which makes perfect sense b/c the field offices were designed as public facing.
There needs to be greater investment in IT and system improvements to accommodate for greater telework. So much time is wasted on manually processing attorney forms. Makes absolutely zero sense. The retainer process for almost any other area of law is much easier. Simply solution would be to heavily sanction or bar attorneys from practicing SSD law if they submit fraudulent attorney forms.
COVID-19 is not going anywhere anytime soon. SSA has been really slow to adapt to the realities of that. Although field offices do require some folks to work in an office, the hearing offices don't need hardly anyone to work in the office. The only reason folks at SSA will want people to return to the office for hearing offices is so they can somehow justify all the management jobs that are not needed.
This doesn’t even take into account the current attrition rate in training. In the past losing 1-3% of each hiring cadre was normal. Now it’s closer to 9% which means these office lose their allocation and have to wait for fresh hires when their trainees( many of them young) quit in the middle of training.
Office to office the rates can be dramatically different.
ReplyDeleteI'm in one of the 2 red states for the drop in SSA employees, but DDS gained. Hmmmm...are state jobs BETTER than federal jobs? That's not a question that needs an answer. Just a curiosity. I do agree with 10:47, but we only have one office. (There may be two). So, I believe, in this instance, that my state is accurate for the loss of SSA employees.
ReplyDeleteI’m in mid-size office in NYC. We lost 5 employees in the last 12 months.
ReplyDeleteI'm in a an office in Ohio...we have lost 10 since the pandemic started.
ReplyDeleteThe Maryland DDS has lost over 30 employees since last July….administration won’t allow any form of telework and employees are bolting
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ReplyDelete8:23 Yes many younger people demand flexibility in their workplace and that includes telework. If DDS does not permit any telework. workers will quit and go elsewhere.
That is why it is silly to argue SSA should end telework. That would be a disaster for the agency. Experienced workers would quit or retire by the droves.
SSA should keep present levels of telework when this "evaluation period" ends in September.
Not all parts of SSA are as easily adaptable to telework. I feel like alot of SSA employees on this blog fail to acknowledge this fact. OHO, the appeals council and payment centers are more effective at telework than field offices (though payment centers were a mess for while)--which makes perfect sense b/c the field offices were designed as public facing.
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be greater investment in IT and system improvements to accommodate for greater telework. So much time is wasted on manually processing attorney forms. Makes absolutely zero sense. The retainer process for almost any other area of law is much easier. Simply solution would be to heavily sanction or bar attorneys from practicing SSD law if they submit fraudulent attorney forms.
COVID-19 is not going anywhere anytime soon. SSA has been really slow to adapt to the realities of that. Although field offices do require some folks to work in an office, the hearing offices don't need hardly anyone to work in the office. The only reason folks at SSA will want people to return to the office for hearing offices is so they can somehow justify all the management jobs that are not needed.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn’t even take into account the current attrition rate in training. In the past losing 1-3% of each hiring cadre was normal. Now it’s closer to 9% which means these office lose their allocation and have to wait for fresh hires when their trainees( many of them young) quit in the middle of training.
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