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Judging by how many people DOGE has gotten fired, it doesn't seem that hard

• bko 1y ago
  As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those hired, promoted, or transferred within the last year—who lack full civil service protections. There are about 3m employees so this is about 2%. This is pretty normal course of business for most organizations. Meta laid off 13% of workers in 2022-2023 and an additional 5% in 2025. Other tech companies did similar numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mass_layoffs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mas...
  • oyashirochama 1y ago
    The issue is, probationary in Gov doesn't mean what it means in Corporate speak. They do actually have most of the same protections which he ignored illegally.
  • nxobject 1y ago
    Yes and no – nearly half federal government's actual workforce is contractors, and contracts have been cancelled en masse. Here is data from 2017 -- the percentage is nearly 40%. https://www.pogo.org/analysis/contractors-and-true-size-of-government https://www.pogo.org/analysis/contractors-and-true-size-of-g...
  • _DeadFred_ 1y ago
    "promoted, or transferred within the last year" You normally want to keep the people you promote. You also normally want to keep the people you transferred to that new important project you spun up. They reason they fired this specific classification is because it was easier to, not because there was any justification to fire them. I thought above you said it's hard to fire people without reason?