
With a typical buyout, a company offers workers money and maybe some benefits, and in exchange they quit. It's a gentler way to reduce headcount, and things typically go fairly smoothly. Why it matters: Smooth is not the word for what's happened to the federal workforce over the past day and a half, not that things were going great before that either. • An offer to pay federal workers through September, if they resign in the next week, is creating confusion, sowing doubt and surfacing mistrust among government employees, who...