Laid-off OPM employees given 2 days to apply for identical jobs in a different office

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Drew Friedman, Workforce, Federal News Network, April 23, 2025

After laying off employees as part of its reduction in force (RIF), the Office of Personnel Management is now circulating a handful of job announcements to impacted employees that are nearly identical to their previous roles — only in a different OPM component.

In an internal email obtained by Federal News Network, OPM notified the impacted staff members on Monday of five vacancies in OPM’s Human Resources Solutions (HRS) office, which manages the software for USA Jobs, USA Staffing and other federal HR products and services.

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