Employees of the U.S. State Department could receive a layoff notice via email very soon as part of the Trump ...

Veterans Affairs abandons plan to fire 76,000 workers after massive backlash. Department scales back DOGE-led layoffs as ...

WASHINGTON − The Department of Veterans Affairs has massively scaled back a DOGE-backed plan to sack more than 76,000 ...

WASHINGTON — The steady erosion of experienced staff at the Food and Drug Administration is slowly compromising the agency’s ...

Following significant pushback, VA is reversing course on its plan for widespread RIFs while still promising some staffing ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the agency “bloated,” yet as violence spiked in the Middle East, staff say they’ve ...

Layoffs have become a common business practice, but research shows long-term performance actually declines after layoffs.

Retail. Dissatisfaction among government employees was matched only by retail workers. Similarly, only 38.1% of retail employees reported feeling positive about the future—though, to be fair ...

The nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service released its annual survey charting employee morale across government agencies last Wednesday, and after three years of post-recession progress, the ...

Trust in Government. Government Employees Think People Hate Them. Increasingly, They're Right Many arms of government are unpopular with large swathes of the American population.

The federal work force morale is at an all-time low, according to some accounts. That might be because the number of workers is roughly the same as it was 30 years ago, while there are 100 million ...

The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos. By Elaine Godfrey. April 16, 2025. Share. Save. Updated at 4:15 p.m. ET on April 16, 2025.