Should Federal Workers Accept Trump’s Buyout? 

HThe federal employee awards, including the public service mission and the value of employment stability, have come to the cost of a modest financial fee. However, the new Trump administration “Delayed offer to resign“Promises money to those who leave their job without any promise to those who remain. Federal workers to whom they are applied to this day decide: Is the package worth it??

Political opponents of President Donald Trump warn that the president Will not be paidReasonable concern with respect to that not paying many of your accounts in his business and personal life. Unions decipher the plan as a intimidation tacticsand some employees representatives to question his legality.

The scope and surprise of this offer is unprecedented in the Federal Government but typical of the management of the sloping and burning Trump and its efficiency emperor, Elon Musk. The offer was presented on their preferred language, as a monetary transaction: eight months of paid leave and use in exchange for resignation. Since they are personally motivated by material considerations, they assume that everyone must be “rational economic actors” as The theory of rational choice Refers to people who care only about their own personal interest.

If the federal worker really trusted the integrity of the offer, rational economic actors that are not already on the verge of full pension in their decision will only measure material considerations. They will consider the value of the remaining wages from home to September, which pays them to seek their next job. They will consider the likelihood of finding employment in the private sector on a similar or better salary before their free ride is run out of. They will compare the relative safety of the job of their perspective in the public and private sector in the foreseeable future. Finally, they will consider the deadlines of retirement and packages in every scenario. People with this worldview see only one dimension of value: net value assigned to money.

But if there are enough rational economic actors in the federal workforce who accept the offer to resign, it could have unintentional consequences for all of us. One possibility is that the necessary services can be disrupted, from air traffic control to tax refund. The potentially ironic consequence of this “Government Efficiency” operation could be the inefficiency that the chaos has brought in a great exodus. The plan could diminish the prospect of jobs for unemployed workers in the private sector struggling to remain in the air at an extended employment pool. In the long run, Trump’s complication for improving the federal workforce could adversely affect productivity if workers who are least qualified to find alternative employment most likely remain in the search for employment stability.

However, Early resistance The offer suggests an even more important factor that can cancel the attempt at corporate attackers to rewind the Government by their image. Many of the most talented and dedicated federal employees have entered a public mission service, not money. They take care of other forms of value beyond their net value: the intangible value of love for a country that cannot be counted in dollars and a sense of self-validity assigned to a well-done job.

For this reason, many federal workers can decide to stay in their positions not because they have no choice, but because they decide to continue to serve their country under any administration, even those who do not respect and try to disassemble them.

Dedicated federal workers can even double in their roles to defend their work for their country and provide the necessary continuity between the previous and present to the next presidential administration. Unlike their new bosses, they believed in the oath they took, The public service is a public trust. They did not enter the public service with the logic on which Trump and Musk deal with: to pay them the most.