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• Inside federal agencies' rush to reshape their workforces—and spare employees from layoffs - March 10, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Federal agencies are scrambling to cobble together plans that meet President Trump’s demands to slash their workforces, though career staff involved in the process are taking steps to mitigate the number of involuntary layoffs they will have to impose.
  
  Whether those more cautious plans—the first drafts of which are due to the White House and the Office of Personnel Management on Thursday—are accepted by political appointees within their agencies and the rest of the Trump administration remains to be seen. Agency officials are hopeful other efforts to trim workforce costs, such as continuing hiring freezes, reorganizing offices and offering separation incentives, will soften the inevitable blow from reductions in force.

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