Office of Personnel Management
The federal government's HR agency, which ran the 2025 workforce reductions.
Role in each timeline
- Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
Provided the federal employment data underlying the 2025 workforce-reduction estimate.
- Social Security's Next Raise: From the 2.5% COLA to the 2027 Announcement
Federal personnel agency named in SSA's workforce announcement.
Office of Personnel Management across every timeline
Every dated entry that names Office of Personnel Management, from all 2 timelines, newest first.
20261 entry
- The federal workforce shrank about 14% in 2025, mostly through deferred resignations Report
Office of Personnel Management data showed a 13.7 percent drop in federal employment from September 2024, a net decrease of about 10.8 percent after hiring, with roughly 386,000 departures over the year; OPM director Scott Kupor said over 92 percent were voluntary, mainly through the deferred resignation program, with about 17,000 reductions in force. The Partnership for Public Service called it a forced exodus that left gaps in food inspection, Social Security processing and veterans' care.
on Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
20251 entry
- SSA sets a staffing target of 50,000 employees Announcement
The Social Security Administration said it had set a staffing target of 50,000 employees. It said its current workforce was approximately 57,000 employees.
on Social Security's Next Raise: From the 2.5% COLA to the 2027 Announcement