According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the official plan is to hire only workers "dedicated to serving the ...

The average tenure for a federal employee is nearly 12 years, according to a Pew analysis of data from OPM. Even a fraction of the workforce accepting buyouts could send shockwaves through the economy ...

An three-judge federal appeals panel has kept in place a lower court's decision to pause the Trump administration's plans to ...

Elon Musk leaves the White House after a tense relationship with President Donald Trump and after 128 days as the head of ...

After firing more than 100,000 people, the White House is sending out new "merit-based" guidelines for hiring federal workers ...

New graduates across the country say deep cuts to government programs and funding have led to rescinded job offers and public ...

Jobs have become a hotly debated topic in the US after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took tough decisions.

The software, known as AutoRIF, is an updated version of a decades-old Pentagon program – though it has been used very little in recent years ...

AutoRIF's name comes from "Reduction in Force." The revamped version has been given the more benign-sounding name "Workforce ...

OPM can approve a 30 days’ notice if the RIF is due to unexpected ... 150,000 additional employees on top of the 130,000 who have already been cut or taken buyouts, including those motivated to do so ...