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Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:53 pm
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MIAMI — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.
“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”
Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast.
GSA was established in the 1940s to centralize the acquisition and management of thousands of federal workplaces. Its return to work request mirrors rehiring efforts at in several agencies targeted by DOGE. Last month, the IRS said it would allow some employees who took a resignation offer to remain on the job. The Labor Department has also brought back some employees who took buyouts, while the National Park Service earlier reinstated a number of purged employees.
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Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:56 pm to ragincajun03
This is exactly how most of us wanted this to work. Cut until you cut too deep and then trim it back a little once you know you went too far.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:57 pm to ragincajun03
I ask out of ignorance, what fraction have been rehired?
Corporations do this routinely. Lay-off 10% based on some metrics. Let the managers rehire the good ones that were let go. Trim the fat and improve the work force.
I'm not sure that's what really happened in this case, but let's not pretend the federal government was some kind of lean operation before the layoffs.
Corporations do this routinely. Lay-off 10% based on some metrics. Let the managers rehire the good ones that were let go. Trim the fat and improve the work force.
I'm not sure that's what really happened in this case, but let's not pretend the federal government was some kind of lean operation before the layoffs.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:57 pm to msutiger
This is exactly how Musk operates his companies… you cut until it breaks then you add back in.
The way it should be done
The way it should be done
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:57 pm to msutiger
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This is exactly how most of us wanted this to work. Cut until you cut too deep and then trim it back a little once you know you went too fa
Agree
The fired people will struggle to find a real private world job so easy to rehire later
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:58 pm to ragincajun03
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Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official
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Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast.
So this guy is just guessing from rumors he hears because he has no tie to the government other than him being a glorified HOA/landlord.
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:59 pm to ragincajun03
I have zero problems with this approach.
Counterpoint - the federal government has far too many properties, that generate this sort of facilities management need in the first place.
Counterpoint - the federal government has far too many properties, that generate this sort of facilities management need in the first place.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:01 pm to Cosmo
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Agree
The fired people will struggle to find a real private world job so easy to rehire later
Link?
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:01 pm to Wildcat1996
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Corporations do this routinely. Lay-off 10% based on some metrics. Let the managers rehire the good ones that were let go. Trim the fat and improve the work force.
Sounds A-OK to me. Not a bad approach for our Federal government to take. Could probably use some of that in state government as well.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:05 pm to msutiger
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This is exactly how most of us wanted this to work. Cut until you cut too deep and then trim it back a little once you know you went too far.
100% EXACTLY
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:05 pm to msutiger
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This is exactly how most of us wanted this to work. Cut until you cut too deep and then trim it back a little once you know you went too far.
Or just take your time and get it right the first time.
We have all worked for companies that laid off talent and then had to pivot.
The business impact lasts for years — delayed projects, AOP hits, Employee dissatisfaction due to overwork, the same demand with fewer people.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:10 pm to ragincajun03
They keep adding them back as the weeks go on. First the NOAA/NWS employees (less than 100 will have left when it is all said and done, and most of those took the early retirement), then a bunch of IRS employees, (hundreds) some other random departments (who knows how many), and now this. 
With a hiring freeze supposedly still in place exemptions to that freeze are piling up.
With a hiring freeze supposedly still in place exemptions to that freeze are piling up.
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:11 pm to ragincajun03
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Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.
JFCPosted on 9/24/25 at 1:14 pm to VoxDawg
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the federal government has far too many properties, that generate this sort of facilities management need in the first place.
Exactly. You need space to process all those personal and corporate welfare checks.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:17 pm to Wildcat1996
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Corporations do this routinely. Lay-off 10% based on some metrics. Let the managers rehire the good ones that were let go. Trim the fat and improve the work force.
I call BS. Never heard of this in the corporate world, and it sounds like a stupid move, good workers will go somewhere else, likely to your compotators. DOGE was a shitshow from day one and did way more harm the good, now the government is trying to correct it's mistakes.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:17 pm to msutiger
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This is exactly how most of us wanted this to work. Cut until you cut too deep and then trim it back a little once you know you went too far.
bullshite. You wanted massive cuts only for the government to immediately, and it was damn near immediate for a lot of them, hire people back? You wanted to be told that there is a "hiring freeze" across FedGov only to have exemption after exemption after exemption granted to pretty much any department that requests it? You wanted that to be the case whilst being told that FedGov wasn't hiring anyone and was saving massive amounts of money by eliminating these positions and selling off office space/property only to find out it was mostly bullshite?
Yeah, you wanted THAT.
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:17 pm to ragincajun03
Thousands left and rehiring hundreds.
So like the corporate world.
So like the corporate world.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:19 pm to ragincajun03
Winning
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:19 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Yeah, you wanted THAT.
Stop making shite up.
8 months isn’t immediately.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 1:20 pm to The_Duke
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Or just take your time and get it right the first time.
We have all worked for companies that laid off talent and then had to pivot.
The business impact lasts for years — delayed projects, AOP hits, Employee dissatisfaction due to overwork, the same demand with fewer people.
The federal government employees almost 3 million people. They've fired or had about 200k leave.
They've rehired hundreds to thousands back.
This is much more fast, efficient, and less costly then combing through every single agency and firing little by little.
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