After cost-cutting blitz, Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off GSA employees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is happening at Labor too, except it's people who took the DRP and were being paid without working, so they got a free vacation for months. Efficiency!!!

+1. I am secretly hoping my agency would follow the same path. Our DRP date is end of December so might be possible.

[Anonymous]

Chiming in as someone who works for this particular agency, the people who got reinstated were those that were RIFed and did not take the DRP. Most of these folks didn't take the DRP because their respective severance would have paid out for a longer period of time (some reached the cap of a year of severance) or simply out of principle.

My assumption is that this is in part due to the massive backlog of work that has accrued from mass-RTO as well as the hundreds of new leased working spaces that ICE is clamoring to get acquired for their agents.

Even among the group of RIFed employees, there were some who weren't reinstated and received amended RIF letters with a closure date of early October.

[Anonymous]

Adding on from above.

Not everyone who got reinstated is likely to returning and my guess is less than half will.

I know a reinstated team where most of the folks declined to return because they got new jobs and aren't willing to risk their new positions or their livelihoods.

I can't fault them for it especially since they work on the real estate arm of GSA which puts them at extreme risk as potential collateral for any politically motivated violence which we have seen many times this year (Charlie Kirk Assassination, CDC Atlanta Building Shooting, Dallas ICE Facility Sniper, etc.) Those incidents spooked a few of the older folks who were reminded of the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing where some psychopath leveled half a federal facility with a car bomb.