at a very basic level the bargain of working for the government was “we will not pay you as much as the private sector but you will have job security and a stable career with good retirement benefits”

that is clearly no longer something we can promise so the price just went up
Reposted from The Fig Economy
Im temperamentally an optimist but I worry that luring federal employees back is gonna be harder and costlier than people think, in the same way that Biden couldn’t just reinstate JCPOA in the same terms with Iran after Trump burned it up.

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