Open Season Ends Monday!
Federal Employee Health Benefits Program Open Season ends next Monday, December 12.
Your current health, vision, and dental benefits will automatically carry over into the new plan year. Your flexible spending account enrollment expires at the end of the current plan year and you must re-enroll to roll over any unused contributions. Update, change, or re-enroll through the links below:
Health benefit plans (FEHB): HR Links Open Season Tile
Vision and dental plans (FEDVIP): BENEFEDS.COM
Flexible spending accounts (FSAFEDS): FSAFEDS.COM
Long Term Care Partners will host their annual Virtual Benefits Fair through December 12, where you can log in anytime to get information about health and dental programs, health benefit plans, flexible spending accounts, and long-term care insurance. Register now to attend the fair at any time during open season. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to access the fair.
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ICYMI: Messages from GSA Leadership
12/8: GSA's general counsel shares a friendly reminder about holiday gifting. Visit the OGC gifts page for pointers to keep in mind during the holiday season.
12/5: Administrator Carnahan provides a personnel update
Check out the Messages from Leadership page on InSite, where you can find past messages from GSA leaders.
New! Be Prepared for Winter Weather
Are you ready for the winter weather? Be better prepared and have emergency supplies in your car. The Farmer's Almanac predicts that most of the U.S. will be colder than normal this winter. Dealing with frigid temperatures, freezing rain, icy roads, and snow drifts may all be part of our future. Consider keeping your vehicle gassed up (full) and perhaps add a few of these items:
- Flares, reflective triangle, reflective vest
- Replace the batteries in your flashlight
- Ice scraper
- Mini- shovel
- Extra set of heavy clothes
- a couple of blankets
- Cat litter or sand for better tire traction
- Download the FEMA app and NOAA weather app on your phone to keep up with information
If you get stuck in bad weather, follow these suggestions to stay safe:
- Know the symptoms of cold stress
- A reddening skin, tingling, pain, swelling, leg cramps, numbness, and blisters
- Dress appropriately
- Wear at least three layers of loose-fitting clothing, insulated gloves, and boots, and cover your head
- Monitor your physical condition and that of the people with you
- Stay dry and pack extra clothes; moisture can increase heat loss from the body
- Take frequent breaks in warm, dry areas
- Drink warm liquids
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New Poll: Have You Kept Your New Year's Resolution?
In the first Week in Review of 2022, we asked you for your new year's resolution. As the year comes to a close, we want to check in to ask: Have you kept your resolution?
Respond to the poll by Thursday, December 15, then check back the following Friday for the results. To share ideas for future polls, send us an email.
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Every week we will feature OCFO colleagues who have been recognized by their peers for their great work and character. This is a quick, easy, and fun way to acknowledge and thank one another.
To recognize one (or more) of your peers in the next Week in Review, use the OCFO Shout Outs Google Form.
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No shout outs this week. Recognize one (or more) of your peers in the next Week in Review by filling out the OCFO Shout Outs Google Form.
Welcome to the OCFO Analytics Corner! Each week, the Analytics Community of Practice (A-CoP) team will be sharing events, training, resources, and more. Complete this Google Form to receive more information about the A-CoP or to get involved.
Get Started with DataViz Today!
Interested in all the recent buzz about data visualizations but don't know where to start? Data visualization designer Amanda Makulec offers tools and resources to take that first step to understand the fundamentals of dataviz. Check it out!
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Visit the Mandatory Training page on GSA's InSite for mandatory training deadlines and watch the GSA News & Info section for training reminders.
Looking for enterprise-wide training? You'll find a selection of the month's offerings below or check out the Online University Events Calendar for a full slate of training opportunities.
December/January Enterprise-wide Training
Check out the Online University Events Calendar for more training opportunities.
New! OHRM Employee Break Rooms
There are two upcoming Employee Break Room sessions:
WorkLife4You (Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. Eastern)
During this session, the hosts will provide information about WorkLife4You, an additional benefit of the Employee Assistance Program; identify your POCs; highlight a Worklife4You service that many employees are unaware of; and demonstrate the WorkLife4You website.
Work Schedules at GSA: Balancing Work and Family (Dec. 20 at 2 p.m. Eastern)
GSA has numerous work schedule options available to help balance work and family needs.
During this session, the hosts will discuss the basic principles of work schedules available at GSA. While many of us still work a "standard" schedule (i.e., 5 days, each of 8 hours), there are five different variations of "flexible" schedules and three different options of "compressed" schedules that can be chosen instead, with supervisory approval. This brief session will provide an overview of the important aspects of these three general categories of work schedules and will also include a demonstration of how to use the HR Links system (i.e., PeopleSoft ERP) to enter time, create a base schedule, and request leave or premium pay (such as overtime).
The session recordings, slides decks and Q&As will be available on GSA Central for later viewing. If you need reasonable accommodation to participate in these sessions, please reach out to your servicing reasonable accommodations coordinator.
Sign Up for Upcoming GSA IT Tech Training Classes
Google Slides: Shapes, Pics & Vids (Dec. 13) - Learn how to wow your audience with animations and transitions; insert text, shapes, images, and videos; crop and mask, add WordArt, and more.
New! Get to Know Google Slides (Dec. 14) - Are you a Google Slides beginner? Learn how to create presentations from scratch or from a template, navigate menus and toolbars, present and share, and more.
Get to Know Your Google Drive (Dec. 15) - Are you a Google Drive beginner? Learn how to navigate the folder tree, find your files, use stars and colors to organize, and more.
Get to Know Google Sheets (Dec. 21) - Are you a Google Sheets beginner? Learn how to create spreadsheets and workbooks, navigate the menus and toolbar, share sheets with your colleagues, resize rows and columns, and more.
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