At least dozens of workers for Technology change servicesPlaced within America General service administrationOn Wednesday afternoon, sources said Wired.
Sudden cuts targeted targeted probationary and short -term employees, including workers supplied by the President's Innovation Fellowship Program, who bring private sector skilled technologists to work in government for a few years at a time. Sources say that out of 70 members of the US Digital Corps, about 50 members out of 50 members were also abolished as two years of government fellowship. The formula also tells Wired that the TTS management personally met the workers before the end, which gave them one last chance to take the postponed resignation offered in the “thorn in the road” email. Last month end,
A TTS employee called the meetings “forced to ensure”.
It is not clear how many people are being allowed to leave, but many sources show that wired this list can be above 70 if not more. Previously, there were about 650 TTS employees. The removed employees are expected to receive a formal termination email on Wednesday evening.
“From the beginning of this administration, the GSA leadership is committed to supporting the initiative of the administration to empower the federal workforce. A GSA spokesman said that GSA has taken immediate action to fully implement all the current executive orders and is committed to taking action to implement any new executive orders. “Like all agencies, GSA is working to meet OPM [Office of Personnel Management] This is related to the period under probation as memo requirements. GSA is committed to ensure a respectable and dignified process for our agency personnel during this change. ,
Sources say that the last day of the employees is expected to be March 7.
Similar firing took place in Consumer Finance Protection Bureau On Tuesday evening. Dozens of employees, primarily under probationary people under two years of service, received termination emails. Due to a failed mail merge, fire workers were addressed [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division],
When Tesla software engineer Thomas Shed joined TTS, he asked the employees to expect the workforce cut. “We must hope that GSA will be working with a quite small budget and will work with very few employees in the future,” the shed told TTS employees in the audio received by Word at an all-hands meeting last week.
GSA's vision for TTS, under new leadership, is an agency that runs like “Startup Software Company”, Wired reports last weekFocusing on AI, automating various internal processes, and centralizing data from the federal government.
GSA was one of the first agencies Musk Associates Once President Donald Trump returned to power. Nicole Hollander, who has supported musk in his Twitter acquisition, has joined the upper levels of GSA, as well as with a sleeve of others Young technologist The musk is associated with companies.
Head count cuts as sheds and TTS leadership, within the next few weeks, are expected to launch a custom generative AI chatbot “GSAI,”. Wired recently reported The goal of this initiative is to increase productivity among employees and analyze data on a large scale. Agency is also planning to sell More than 500 federal buildings To cut the overall cost, the employees insist on returning to the work of the in-Person office.
On Wednesday evening, A federal judge allowed the Trump administration To continue your plans to reduce the size of the federal workforce.
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