Due to the ever increasing recourse to teleworking, the Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ) has drafted a guide for managers to ensure that new recruits are successfully welcomed and integrated when daily on-site working is not possible. It contains ten stages, provides tips and underscores the priority issues (coming up with new informal forms of contact, systematic feedback on work).

360 degree appraisals, which are already conducted in a number of countries, are of increasing interest to French central government departments. Drawing on experiments carried out in five ministries and by the Senior Executives Task Force, the Directorate General for Administration and the Civil Service (DGAFP) is offering its expertise to spur government departments to take ownership of this method which enhances the range of perceptions by factoring in contributions from subordinates, colleagues and partners.

The purpose of a new app called “ABC dei Dritti” is to compile and explain, in a pedagogical manner, the main legislation governing civil servants in a database with alphabetic and topic-based entries. It is updated by adding the judgments and decisions which have become case law. In addition, users can put questions to experts who will provide tailored answers.