The task will be as much rooting out the culture of arrogance and presumption just as much as a reduction in size. Otherwise it will just be back to business as usual when the pendulum swings the other way. They can’t be thinking they’re our betters and we’re here to do their will. They have to understand their jobs make then about half way between a symbiote and a parasite, and act with fitting humility.
You fail to also see these people suffer no fools. From all the crap they have had to navigate through the bureaucracy to attain success, they know exactly where to go and how to get it done. There is a very easy way to eliminate public employees within the confines they have set to themselves. I’m sure these people know the way. The exception was been those previously in charge were there for the paycheck and whatever graft came their way. They had never entertained the thought of anything like productivity, ever. Those days are very short lived.