Many received calls from supervisors Wednesday letting them know they’re going to be dismissed, although official emails letting employees go haven’t been sent out, according to three current employees.
Those slated to be let go are in their probationary periods — meaning that they don’t have the same job protections against firing that most feds do — or are new to their positions.
GSA is the latest agency to dismiss recent hires. On the first day of the new Trump administration, the government’s HR agency instructed agencies to collect names of probationary employees, who’ve since been reinterviewed and reminded of their probationary status at times, as GovExec has reported.
The dismissals at GSA are spread across a swath of programs within its Technology Transformation Services with no discernible pattern as to who is being let go, two current employees told Nextgov/FCW.
18F, GSA’s tech consulting arm, was among the programs where people are apparently being removed. A significant number of people within the fellowship programs run by TTS, like the U.S. Digital Corps and Presidential Innovation Fellows, were also impacted.
It’s unclear if other parts of the agency outside of TTS were targeted.
Two GSA employees told Nextgov/FCW that many of those affected were women and people of color. Some of those set to be let go weren’t new to the government, but had moved agencies or ..
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