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Workforce Reductions: Downsizing Strategies Used in Selected Organizations

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 13, 1995
Report No. GGD-95-54
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Summary:

By fiscal year 1999, federal agencies must reduce employment levels by about 270,000 full-time equivalent positions, or about 12 percent of the federal civilian workforce, excluding the Postal Service. To obtain information that might be of value in carrying out federal downsizing, GAO contacted 17 companies, five states, and three foreign governments that had downsized in recent years. This report presents a compendium of the approaches these employers used, as described by managers: the planning involved, the methods used to reduce their workforces, and the human resources aspects of the downsizing.

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