Mobile civil service

How will state government address the looming retirement of large percentage of its workforce?  Government Technology reports that mobility could attract a new generation of civil servants.

Fitting technology around people, instead of people around technology, is an idea whose time has come.

State government bureaucracies solved an information problem. They moved and idea or goal down the personnel pyramid from top to bottom. In theory the job got done -- in years past, it was the ONLY way the job got done. Technology limited the options.

Using mobility and presence technologies to attract a new generation of civil servants only makes sense because by most accounts, these new employees will be directionally less hierarchical anyway.

Chances are they'll know who can help solve a problem despite what the org chart says.