If You Really Want to Help Government Workers … Recruit Them Away

It’s not an overstatement to label the current federal government partial shutdown as the most extraordinary opportunity to recruit government employees since the end of World War II! Firms in nearly every industry are faced with the painful tripartite combination of record low unemployment, record high employee turnover, and a prolonged “skills shortage” that are all restricting corporate growth. Fortunately, at the peak of this period when the demand for experienced talent far outweighs its supply, suddenly, literally hundreds of thousands of well-trained and normally loyal federal employees are now frustrated to the point where many are beginning to at least consider leaving federal service.