Your Two Cents



Share your ideas, best practices and innovations for your work, your office & your organization.* Put your two cents out there for Agency leaders (and all of ARS if you choose!) and tune back in for discussion and appropriate actions in the coming months. Y2C is not intended for the displayed topics, please click on the links for assistance with these issues: EEO issues Leave and Benefits Alternative Dispute Resolution Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Welcome to Your Two Cents, the award-winning ARS best practice and idea feedback program. Your Two Cents (Y2C) is under exciting development. The new and improved Y2C, powered by OrganizedFeedback, will be up and running after the new Fiscal Year. In the meantime, the system is available for your perusal, but is not accepting new ideas or comments. The Y2C Response Team and Focus Group are on a sabbatical of sorts. We are cleaning up existing ideas and responses and getting the new system ready. All new responses will be available when the new Y2C opens in the fall. Thank you for all you do to make Y2C a rich resource for ARS!

Y2C here. We're looking for your input on the new Concur travel system. Have you used it? Do you have any tips or tricks to sha [more...] Recent Ideas Accretion of duties. Dear my two cents, I am wondering what the agency policy is regarding accretion of duties. Since I began working in ARS over ten ... Children in the Workplace Reminder I'm not one for the constant email reminders but in this case I would like to request that an email be sent outlining the regulati... Thank you to all the employees who voiced concerns re the WebT&A training! Thank you to all of you who took the training when it was first announced and deployed, and then stepped up and sent in feedback a... drowning in admin I have been a research scientist with ARS for 19 years. We have always been required to have a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed publica... Think before you "train" The new WebTA training is awful. Who decided that we need to spend time listening to a computer voice explain that to search for s... WebTA Epic (or should I say Epochic) Training This has got to be the most irresponsible assignment I have even seen get placed on our backs...hands-down!!! It is interminably ... Electronic Payments to USDA ARS I wish USDA would enter the 21st Century with regards to transfer of funds to USDA (especially contributed travel). The continuing... Issues with APHIS? All ARS animal facilities are subject to APHIS inspections. I heard through the grapevine that a unit using animals was required b... AFM Spirit Week Anyone else tired of getting multiple Spirit Week emails? We already get enough junk email.... Make content of Departmental Directives searchable (ones that replace P&Ps) Provide Departmental Directives with searchable text (content). Some P&Ps have been replaced by Departmental Directives and po... Bulletin Board • Y2C Team Members • Subject Matter Experts • Concur Ideas & Responses • CyberSprint on Axon • StARS – Shout-Outs to ARS

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