Federal Employee Resource Center

The Washington Post reported on October 29, 2026, that nearly one in five federal workers has left government since January 2025, and that Black federal employees took the biggest ...

A new report from WIRED raises a pointed question about the USAID terminations: how did an official sign the letter ending the employment of thousands of career staff when, accordi...

Would you give up a raise to keep your alternative work schedule? One federal employee told Federal News Network they would. The outlet's pulse survey, released October 13, 2026, d...

Public trust in federal employees is holding up far better than the headlines suggest. A new national survey from the Partnership for Public Service found that a record 65% of Amer...

OPM Director Scott Kupor says the $9.5 billion the federal government paid its own employees not to work last year was "a massive benefit to the taxpayer," describing it as a 400 p...

You remember the Fork in the Road email — the subject line, and the one-word reply: Resign. Eighteen months later, the numbers are in: the government hired your replacements. Somet...

The IRS workforce has fallen from about 100,000 employees to an expected 74,000 by year's end after DOGE's cuts — and the man who ran the agency says the bill has not come due yet....

The GAO audit of DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" is finished, and the shortest way to describe it is this: DOGE said it saved you $110 billion, the Government Accountability Office asked...

Every federal employee knows the annual routine: ethics training, records management training, and — for many positions — a financial disclosure form with a certification block som...

A new GAO audit of DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" found that the savings claims used to justify two years of federal workforce cuts do not hold up when checked against the government's ...

FEMA lost roughly 4,500 employees in eighteen months without ever assessing what the agency actually needed, according to a new Government Accountability Office audit — and the age...

Federal employees have lived through an extraordinary eighteen months, and Southworth PC wants to help more of those stories be told firsthand rather than about the people who live...