It would have been nice to even have a chance to succession plan before my agency/office was crippled in last year’s DRP. I’d love to see you write about how you plan to support your current employees who are drowning due to these decisions, morale is at an all time low, the cracks are starting to show in the ability to carry out the mission a year and a half after my office lost 60% of its staff. You will NOT be able to recruit new younger people that stay, if you don’t start treating your existing employees better.

Look at the hiring struggles of some agencies recently that have been advertising and how most movement has been internal lateral moves and not bringing on outside talent. We are crippled. I’m telling you OPM-people don’t want to come to work somewhere that revoked all telework for no reason, where they will be on probation for a year and subject to the whim of any Elon musk type coming on and firing thousands of people with NO PLANNING WHATSOEVER, for a 0% pay increase. Make it make sense.