Key updates from ARLnow.com:
This mass exodus — unprecedented in its scale — includes 154,000 federal employees who accepted buyout offers and were largely removed from the payroll as of the end of last month.Nearly 105,000 employees took regular retirement during the fiscal year that ended in September, an 18 percent surge from the previous year.
File this under, “This could have been a lot worse.
Author's summary: Federal retirements surge unexpectedly.