The General Services Administration offered back jobs to hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs under Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The agency gave employees who managed its governmentwide real estate portfolio until the end of the week to accept or decline their reinstatement, according to the Associated Press. Those who accept will have essentially been paid for the last seven months without working.
In a statement, a GSA spokesperson said the agency is “making adjustments in the best interest of the customer agencies we serve and the American taxpayers.” Employees who accept the reinstatement will return to work Oct. 6.
“This serves as an update to your previously issued notice of reduction in force. Your specific notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) has been rescinded, effective immediately,” acting commissioner of the GSA’s Public Buildings Service, Andrew Heller, wrote.
“Your decision of whether to accept or decline a return to duty is completely voluntary,” Heller added.
Several federal agencies have seen similar rehiring efforts in recent weeks.
DOGE efforts are expected to cost the United States more than Musk said they would have saved the country. Several courts have ordered employees at multiple federal agencies to be rehired, ruling they were improperly fired. The government put them on paid leave when they were fired, so taxpayers paid the bill of rehiring them, plus salaries collected while staying home and not working.
In March, thousands of GSA employees left the agency as Musk encouraged them to resign or take an early buyout. Hundreds more were dismissed in the Trump administration’s drastic effort to reduce the number of federal workers.
The GSA is responsible for constructing and maintaining government buildings. At one point, DOGE wanted the government to sell hundreds of federal buildings, and the GSA had canceled hundreds of leases.
In a Wednesday memo sent to GSA workers shared with the Washington Examiner, the Public Buildings Service said it would reorganize itself into 11 program areas, including “facilities management, portfolio management, acquisition, engineering, leasing, disposition, client engagement, and project management.”
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Firings of federal workers have slowed since Musk departed from the government in May and his falling out with President Donald Trump in June.
More than 201,000 federal government employees have left the government since Trump returned to the White House in January, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
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