FederalNewsRadio.com reports that the Office of Personnel Management will no longer project the retirements of federal employees, largely because previous predictions have not held up.
As of 2006, for example, 59,269 agency workers were expected to leave government, but only 57,649 eventually retired, OPM said. Researchers are also finding that workers across all sectors are staying in their jobs longer, in part because of the economic downturn, the article states.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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