Podcasts Government Federal Drive with Tom Temin Federal retirements dropped in 2019, as employees cite wide variety of motivations to stay or go

Federal retirements dropped in 2019, as employees cite wide variety of motivations to stay or go

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 5 a.m.

Federal personnel experts have been discussing the coming retirement wave since the mid-1990s. It was supposed to happen at any moment, and with nearly one-third of the current federal workforce eligible to retire by 2022 maybe those fears are justified? But fewer federal employees retired in 2019 than in the previous year. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain why predicting that retirement wave always proves futile.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices