The agency’s acting administrator, Salesforce alum Stephen Ehikian, told GSA employees on Monday that the agency would be conducting a reduction in force, according to an email obtained by Nextgov/FCW.
It’s not yet clear who is going to be let go at the agency. At least 100 employees in GSA’s Technology Transformation Services have already been fired as part of the administration's sweeping dismissals of probationary feds, who have weaker civil service protections than other government employees.
The administration also offered feds a deferred resignation option just weeks into the new Trump administration. At GSA, the first tranche of feds that opted in were put on administrative leave at the end of last week, Ehikian wrote in the email, noting that that process — “the first step in GSA’s effort to refocus, modernize, and streamline the agency” — will finish by the end of next month. GSA is also looking to use voluntary early retirements to cull its workforce, Ehikian’s email states.
The impending layoffs at GSA are part of a broader government-wide effort being led by billionaire Elon Musk to shrink the workforce. Musk himself has already visited GSA, and several of his associates are now working there.
Within the agency, various offices have been presenting their roles and responsibilities to what senior executives ar ..
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