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Margot Conrad: Hiring freeze affects ability to ensure quality service

Everybody likes a smaller, more efficient government with better services from its agencies and the habit of hiring the best possible people. Throw in a hiring ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

February 1, 2017 9:21 am

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Margot Conrad, director of education and outreach, Partnership for Public Service

Everybody likes a smaller, more efficient government with better services from its agencies and the habit of hiring the best possible people. Throw in a hiring freeze and a reduction through attrition and you end up with a nearly unsolvable equation. Margot Conrad, director of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the effects the freeze may have on the ability to ensure quality service.

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