Since the turover rate per year is 6%, implemented hiring freeze would yield theese results.

Does the 6% number includes churn between departments? Unless ICE can absorb 100k+ headcount the number will be much lower this year.

1) You're assuming these leadership clowns are that smart

2) They are targeting particular employees more.

Which is exactly what Canadian government has been doing for a while now after the service ballooned during the pandemic, e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPublicServants/comments/1g9qy...

there is a hiring freeze https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/hiri.... this buyout is meant to accelerate

These tend to work through in stages: fastest ones to accept were already looking, and next up are those that are on the fence, and so on...

The 8-month buyout offer is significantly better than the one-time offer from Clinton in the 90's [1], even adjusting for inflation, so I'd expect that there's a large group of individuals & families that are just taking the time to evaluate the decision.

[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-buyo...]

Interesting precedent thanks for sharing.

Amazing. That offer (and website in general) look and sound identical to what the current administration is proposing.

Well, except that Clinton went to Congress for authorization to make those offers and got a law passed, and didn't do a blanket offer to every employee they could blast out an email to, and did them as actual buyouts rather than extended no-work leave.

They have separately promised $1T or even $2T in cuts and and laying off 200K won't even come close. Not to mention they are offering these as blanket buyouts seemingly without regard for job function so they will inevitably end up needing to hire back some percentage of roles unless (as I suspect) they intend to just stop doing a bunch of critical work.

it's now 40k, so 2%. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/05/trumps-fede...