Federal Daily News
GPO workforce size hits 100-year low
The Government Printing Office said a round of buyout and early out offers in 2011 has reduced its workforce numbers to the “lowest level in the past century.”
Buyout and early out offers tendered in 2011 set a goal of reducing staff by 15 percent. By year’s end, the agency had cut its workforce from 2,232 employees to 1,920—247 from buyouts and early outs, and another 65 from departures for other reasons.
That reduction—in addition to a 70 percent reduction in the size of GPO’s workforce since 1980 due to new technologies—translates into what GPO called “a rate of change unparalleled elsewhere among other legislative branch agencies.”
GPO said it expects the recent cuts to produce savings of about $17.9 million for the remainder of fiscal 2012, and $23.9 million in fiscal 2013.