The Pentagon is looking to slash between 5 and 8 percent of a civilian workforce totalling 900,000. Fewer than 21,000 accepted a 'deferred resignation' offer promoted by Elon Musk.
To be completely fair, the US DoD is absolutely full of useless contractor positions and various departments & subdepartments that do nothing.
When I was in the Army I could even say that there were offices that did virtually nothing and were overstaffed. Not as common, of course, but this is a very real phenomenon in the government.
To be completely fair, the US DoD is absolutely full of useless contractor positions and various departments & subdepartments that do nothing.
When I was in the Army I could even say that there were offices that did virtually nothing and were overstaffed. Not as common, of course, but this is a very real phenomenon in the government.