retirement tsunami

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USPS is growing its workforce, but a ‘retirement wave’ may be coming soon, watchdog warns

USPS loses about 40,000 employees to attrition in an average year. That includes retirements and employees leaving to find work elsewhere.

Hiring/Retention

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Is 2021 the year of the federal retirement comeback?

Federal Report

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Federal retirements dropped in 2019, as employees cite wide variety of motivations to stay or go

Retirement

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Headed for the door? Or working longer? Tell us about your federal retirement plans

Retirement

Retirement tsunami or aging in place?

Federal Report

Federal retirement numbers show no surge in February

Retirement

Too early to call it a ‘tsunami,’ but could 2018 retirements signal the start of something else?

Retirement

The earthquake that may cause a retirement tsunami

Commentary

Temporary shutdown shut down temporarily — now what?

Your Turn

Are more federal employees leaving government under Trump administration?

Workforce

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Tracking the retirement tsunami

Your Turn

Though more feds retired in 2017 compared to the previous year, it hardly triggered a ‘tsunami’

2017’s retirement numbers paled in comparison to those of the mid-years of the Obama administration.

Workforce

Still waiting for the brain drain …

Just before the turn of the century experts predicted a brain drain, a tidal wave of retirements that would leave Uncle Sam less intelligent than a bag…

Federal Report

TrumpExit on hold? In the works? Not gonna happen?

Federal Report

Despite the warnings of many federal prognosticators, the mass exodus of angry, frightened civil servants hasn’t happened.