Fed Using More Bonuses for Recruiting and Retention

According to Stephen Barr, Federal Diary columnist for the Washington Post, large federal agencies are increasingly offering bonuses to recruit employees for hard-to-fill jobs and to keep them from leaving the government. Obviously, this is a good thing. I really think the federal government needs to offer more bonuses creative incentives for young people and highly-skilled workers to come to the federal government and stick around. I'm talking bonuses, tuition reimbursement, sabbaticals, maternity/paternity leave...all of that and more.

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