The White House is begging hundreds of workers who were fired by Elon Musk to return to the ‘broken and understaffed’ government.
Earlier this year, Musk left his post as the head of the department of government efficiency (DOGE), where he was tasked with tightening federal spending.
During his time in the White House, the tech mogul made mass layoffs and canceled government contracts in a bid to save money.
However, it seems like this might have backfired as the government is now scrambling to get people to return to their jobs.
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Hundreds of former employees who were either let go from their positions or accepted buyouts after now being urged to come back by the General Services Administration.
The organization sent an internal message out to workers to share that by the end of this week, they will need to either accept or decline an offer of reinstatement.
Chad Becker, who is a former GSA real estate official and now represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, shared that the government was left ‘broken’ after Musk made his cuts.
Becker went on to say that the cuts left the GSA without ‘the people they needed to carry out basic functions’.
A spokesperson shared that it was new leadership who had ‘workforce actions and is making adjustments in the best interest of the customer agencies we serve and the American taxpayers’.
But the GSA isn’t the only federal agency to u-turn some of the decisions made by Musk and his department.
The Internal Revenue Service is another department who informed its workers that had accepted resignation that they could choose to return to their roles.
The National Park Service has allowed staff members who were either fired or resigned to return and the Department of Labor also encouraged its workers to return after some took buyout offers.
Notably, layoffs were made at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered by the Trump administration earlier this year but just days later, 180 former employees were shocked to receive an email informing them to return to work.
The subject line of the email read: “Read this email immediately.”
In the body of the note, it said: “You should return to duty under your previous work schedule. We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused.”
This is according to a report by the Associated Press.
Among those who had been removed from their positions were recent hires who were still in the probation period of their employment.