The federal government shed 385,000 employees last year. Now the Trump administration is on a blitz to hire Gen Z workers

A year after firing thousands of probationary employees, the Trump administration indicated it needs more early-career workers to sustain the federal workforce.

“We’ve got close to half of our population that’s within 10 years of retirement age,” Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), told Fortune. “So if you just did nothing else, you’ve got this major demographic challenge of a large number of people who will likely either retire or certainly be retirement-eligible over the near term...