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CBER Staffing Remains Challenging, But Permanent Virtual Work May Help Offset Expected Retirements

 
• By Kate Rawson

Peter Marks predicts that staffing challenges within CBER can be alleviated by offering employees the flexibility to work remotely – permanently. With important posts in the vaccines office still to be hired, it could be an important incentive.

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FDA thinks this screen could be a selling point for potential employees. • Source: Shutterstock

US FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research Director Peter Marks hopes that the option for employees to work remotely from outside the Washington, D.C. area – on a permanent basis, even after the pandemic is over – will help offset what is expected to be increased rate of attrition after the strains of the COVID pandemic.

“One of the things in terms of our hiring priorities that’s been made a little bit easier by COVID-19 is that we have shattered the previous connection when people had to be in the DC-Maryland-Virginia general area so they could come to

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