Posted on 05/08/2008 10:35:43 AM PDT by qam1
The Federal Aviation Administration. The Social Security Administration. The National Science Foundation. The Treasury Department. All could lose as much as a quarter of their employees by 2012, mostly because of retirements. They are not alone.
Across the government, about a third of full-time employees will retire in the next five years, according to estimates prepared by the Office of Personnel Management. The turnover could be even higher in the ranks of federal executives and supervisors.
From the start of the Bush administration, agencies have been preparing for the churning that will be caused by the baby boom retirement wave. But there are growing concerns that the government may be at a disadvantage in competing for talent, especially among young people, because of its slow and cumbersome hiring practices.....
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The partnership calculates that from fiscal 2002 to 2006, the number of full-time federal employees who filed for retirement increased sharply, from about 30,000 annually to more than 45,000. The OPM has projected that the peak retirement years will be 2008 through 2010, when up to 60,000 employees are projected to leave each year.
By the partnership's reckoning, federal agencies will lose nearly 530,000 employees, many in leadership positions, by 2012. That's a rather alarming number.
The OPM has launched a series of efforts to ramp up federal recruitment efforts. They include television advertisements, upgrades to USAJobs.gov and the development of a 45-day hiring model for most federal jobs.
Congress also has made changes to civil service hiring law, allowing agencies to make hiring offers more quickly and to increase the number of qualified applicants whom managers can consider for a job.
In addition, Congress has authorized agencies to offer student loan reimbursements to top-notch college graduates in hopes of making the government a more attractive employer........
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Contractors do a much better job than the feds do, and cheaper. .....and you can fire or replace them easily.
Well that argument goes both ways. I am suffering first hand because it is almost impossible to find a decent employee that will stick around. My company has hired 2 people in the last year that have worked for just a little while and took off. It isn’t that bad of a place to work, trust me. There has to be just a little bit of loyalty to the company for the employees too. Personally speaking, these jerks have pretty much doubled my work load, and I work 50+ hours a week as it is.
This is one way to reduce government... cut by osmosis! Maybe we can get this hydra back under control after all.
You’re right on the first part, but it’s harder to get rid of them because _someone_ has to do the work at those places.
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