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Design/  You’ve likely heard of the impending government
retirement wave.  For a decade, agency leaders have been
monitoring their workforce demographics with increasing concern.
Low attrition rates combined with less hiring have produced a
static employee base that grows older with each passing year.
Many employees have put retirement on hold during the economic
and federal budget crises. This may delay any mass exodus from
federal staffs, but it will increase the size of the wave in
years to come. As agencies tweak workforce plans to account for
these trends, they’ve rightly planned for the departure of their
oldest employees. But they also need to consider employees under
age 60, whose exit represents the single biggest risk to the
continuity of operations.  There are roughly 650,000 federal
workers in their 50s, which is