OPM has told agencies that starting with the preparation and submission of the mission critical occupation resource charts for fiscal year 2016, they must break down those reports by subcomponent.
“Federal human capital management is at a pivotal point for how it supports agency missions. Specifically, workforce analytics and fostering a data-driven culture is increasing within the federal HC community, as data-driven decision-making is manifesting as a practice, versus solely serving as a concept,” a memo says.
More detailed reporting “supports a long-standing goal of enabling HC professionals to become strategic business partners” and results from an OPM reassessment of the method and type of data it collects from agencies, it says.
“The aggregation of sub-component data into one overall agency submission may conceal large gaps or surpluses at lower levels within an organization. This greater granularity will provide more accurate and reliable data to demonstrate gap closure success and areas for improvement,” it says,
The memo and its attachment contain detailed instructions for compiling and reporting data in such detail, which agencies must send to OMB’s MAX portal by February 10. Moving forward, the annual deadline will be December 31.
