The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo (M-23-15) on April 13 regarding organizational health and organizational performance. The memo, “outlines steps executive departments and agencies will take to ensure that agency decisions regarding work environments continue to improve organizational health and organizational performance,” wrote OMB Director Shalanda Young. “One year after agencies completed reentry, and with the planned conclusion of the public health emergency, it is the right time for agencies to assess their work environments, reflecting on what they have learned as they build routines for measuring and monitoring organizational health and organizational performance.”

“Agency workforces are generally expected to increase meaningful in-person work—that is in-person work that is purposeful, well-planned and optimized for in-person collaboration—while still using flexible operational policies as an important tool in talent recruitment and retention,” Young wrote. “Planning should recognize that some operating units have improved performance while using workplace flexibilities, while also optimizing in-person work and strong, sustainable organization health and culture. Emphasis on planning should be placed on agency headquarters and equivalents and customer-facing units and personnel, including in high impact service providers.”

To view the full 19-page memo, click here.