Don’t Get Your Hopes Up That 75,000 Employee Buyouts Means Anything
The Federal civilian workforce is something in the range of 1.8 million people. From this study, 6% seems to be a reasonable estimate of annual attrition among Federal employees, or about 108,000 a year. In that context, the 75,000 signed up for buyouts is nothing. It could easily be made up almost totally of people about to leave or retire anyway. I don’t think we are accomplishing anything unless we take at least a 20-30% whack out of […]