Federal Government Policy and Business

Millennials working in government are at their lowest levels in five years,new report finds

The Washington Post: With sagging morale of federal workers one of the biggest challenges in government, a key group that’s the foundation of the future workforce is shrinking: millennials. A new survey by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service on the challenges to managing talent in government shows that the numbers of employees under age 30 are at their lowest levels since 2005.

This group now makes up just 6.6 percent of the federal workforce, down from 9.1 percent in 2010, a drop of more than 45,000 people, the Partnership found. Employees under age 25 dropped from an already low 2 percent five years ago to 0.9 percent this year. If you look at the entire U.S. workforce, 23.5 percent are under 30 years old, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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