Solving the Right Problem with the Federal Workforce

Conflict over the government workforce has never been greater. From fighting to protect federal jobs to make it easier to fire poorly performing employees, political battles over the government workforce have grown increasingly fierce. What if these battles are focused on the wrong problem? It’s one thing to protect jobs, but what mission should these jobs advance? It surely is important to make it easier to remove those who don’t perform well, but who should we hire instead? We’re careening down the road, steering by looking in the rear-view mirror, instead of sizing up the road we need to be on for the future.